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IIS pirn J? . 3 3 v Vol. XLH. Corvaijjs, Benton County, Oregon, Tuesday, JTbruaky 21, 1905. No. IT k V 1 DOING MS UTMOST. Postmaster Johnson, of This City is -Hopeful of Having Many People Accommodated. When the "old cat died? at Be il fountain last Wednesday night many people experienc ed a feeling of desolation, to put it strongly, for they felt that, hence forth they would be compelled to secure their mail by whatever means they could. From present judications, things are . not so bad as they might be. B. W. Johnson, our postmaster, is ever alive to the needs of the people and is quick to grasp hold of any' proposition whereby patrons of the postal department are to be accommodated. Immedi ately on receiving information that the postoffice at Bellfountain was to be discontinued he formu lated a plan which bids fair to give better service to the people of the section of country above referred to than anything they have yet enjoyed . :'- During January Mr. Johnson began a ' correspondence with Postal Department at Washing ton, D. C," relative" to his plan, which he has submitted to the authorities. Mch correspon dence ensued. Mr. ohnson en countered a ruling of the depart ment to tne ettect tnat belore a route can be established, or even : investigated, there must , be pre sented a petition signed by the heads of at least 100 families re siding along the proposed route. There are not 100 families and, furthermore, a petition would be slow. Six or eight months would be consumed before action could be had on a petition, and then only an investigation or inspec tion be ordered. Our postmaster is ''strenuous'! and wanted action at once, so he enlisted the aid of Senator Fulton. In one of his letters to the authorities at Wash ington, Mr. Johnson says: ; "tty tne establisnment 01 a - rural route from Coryallis . to Bruce; thence west, two and a half miles; thence back to Cor vallis bv the way ot : lnavale, a distance ot 27 or 28 miles, there can be effected a saving to the department, as it will save the cost ot maintenance or . totar Route service between Corvallis and Bellfountain." Continuing the matter, Mr, one morning .when the thi vm-nii eter was 26 below zero, but it was too much for the Webfooters, as Mrs. Robinson returned with her face and one foot frozen. - Mr. and Mrs. Robinson will start for California in about a week and expect to reach Corval lis about the first of April. The following was written by Mr. Robinson from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for publication in the GA ZETTE, " ' " ' . ' - Thinking that a few items from a"strange source, might be accept able to the readers of your paper, I will just offer a few notes from this part of the universe. I sup pose the weather in Oregon is somewhat milder than in this state. Oregomans would proba bly think that a temperature of from 10 above zero to 26 below was unnecessarily cool, yet that has been the prevailing fashion here in Iowa, Illinois and Wis consin. The people here just ac cept the conditions as inevitable. A good many it is true, soar away, at least in their minds, to where conditions are more favorable and SENATOR AVERY EXPLAINS. The; Jayne Bill Discussed by Our Senator Plainly Stated, as i You Will Ses. Editor Gazette;- . The Jayne Bill has attracted so much attention here lately- the contents of whirih are so little known I will refer to one or two provisions in this bill, also to Section 3 of the present local option law, in order that your readers may see how the law ap plies to Corvallis and what effect the Jayne. Bill would have on Corvallis, provided it became the . Section 3 of the present local option law reads as follows: "If under the provisions of this act, an election shall bs : de manded wholly, or in part in any corporatM city or town, - or j in any ward or precinct there n, to be held at the time of : a city or town election, occurrimg m : a year in which there is no general election, then the county clerk shall notify, the proper authority of such city or town that such a vote taken, the question would be settled for a tew years at least, we hoped to eliminate what we considered the most objection able and dangerous . feature of the present law,, allowing only ten per cent of the voters on either side to force an election upon the people : every year on this ques tion. P. Avery, COUNTRY CORRSPONDENCE. OAK. GROVE- imaginehow nice it would be to order such city or town-au- Johnson further says: 'My reason for asking: that this matter be hurried up is that service may be established at - the earliest possible date, and thus avoid in convenience to . the patrons . who will be without service after the , discontinuance of the ; Bellfoun tain postoffice." v - To off-set the matter of short age of families along ' the pro-' posed route, Mr. ' Johnson has drawn the attention of the authori ties to the fact that this is one of the finest and wealthiest sections of the Willamette " Valley, that " the farms are all of unusual size, but that their possessors have al ready become used to a daily mail service and, in consequence, are subscribing for aJarge quantity of maill , Through the .. assistance of! Senator Fulton and : the persist ency of his own effortsMr. John- son now has official assurance of an investigation of - this route at an early date. All this despite the fact that cre are not he regulation 100 families along the proposed route, nor. has anv petition been presented . - ' We will await developments and ' - hope for the best.v If this route is established residents between ; Bellfountain and lnavale will again enjoy a daily service. ' eet away from cold and. ice. .'- A great many tell me, "Oh, yes, we are coming put "next, sum mer." One man who is superin tendent of the street car company has already given 'notice ,that he will resign his olace rather than miss going to Portland, -: ' . ;: Times are good; everybody seems to be prosperous, l nis is a corn country. Corn and hogs are the principal crops on. which the farmers depend tor money. The farm buildings do not meas ure up to those of the dairy dis tricts. One district in Southern Wisconsin (Green),, shows more material advancement: than any have noticed in all my travels. It is 50 marked that.anyqne,would easily see it in passing through. Nice buildings and big shocks of corn - are the visible results of their mode' of farming. They have 36,000 cows and their ex ports 01 cheese amounts to seven millions of dollars annually. The land has been brought up to such high a state of cultivation hat it. yields large crops of "high ly nutncious pasture I walked over some oi that land and saw the condition it was in for fertili ty, and thought what would Or egon be with its deliehtml cli mate, if we would learn from these people the methods that have made them successful. thority may cause the official bal lots to be prepared, m accordance with the provisions, of this aet, aridihe city auditor, or clerk or -recorder, as the case may be. shall make return to the county clerk of the votes for or against prohi bition in the several precincts of said city or town, and thereafter said matter shall proceed, a . m the case of a -general election-" I think it will be readily seen that under this law which is now in force, the saloon interests can demand an election" at our regu lar city election occurring in May not only as to the whole of the city, but can demand an election in one ward or precinct if they see fit. This would enable them to concentrate their torce on one! warn ana. wouia no aouut carry it in spite of all Opposition . - Now, in the so much dreaded Jayne Bill as it passed the House will be found that Section 1 start ed off as follows:. . "Whenever . 'a petition ' there for, signed by not less than 30 per cent of the legal voters of any precinct of any county m this state shall be, hied with tiie coun ty, clerk of such "county, sueh precmct shall be wholly within or wholly without an incorporated city or town " As e have no such precincts in the city of Cor vallis, 1 all ' extend outside of the Tbos. Jones and family were visiting at the home of Jamss Johnston, Sunday..: Mr. Chambers, of Kings Vallev, was doing "business in Albany, Monday s Mrs. Frank. Holman is on the sick list, as well as many others in this neighbor hood. Will Morris is now the owner of a matched driving team. He got them from Mr. Sox, of Albany. Oak Grove' School has been discon tinued this week on account of the teach er's illr.ess. Mrs. Rack returned home, Friday, from Dram, Oregon, where she went a few weeks ago to visit with her son, Wes lev, who came out from Missouri last fal. Ex-Sberi5 Huston was here, Monday,. buying horses. ' . . : . John Benson has sold ' his 40-acre farm to Mr. Armstrong, of Albany. The price paid was $40 per acre. Mr. Ben son will go to Portland to resile. Albert Small left for Portland, Monday, taking with him- his little, boy, who Is about three years old, for medical treat ment. - - - . -s Henry Cauthorn and wife, of Indepen dence, were visitors at the Williamson I home, Sunday. ..." . v . Sheriff White and deputy passed through this part of the county, Friday, on their way to Wells Station. D. N. Williamson and son, Charles, of Albany, came out Friday and' spent the dsyr with Relatives. John Benson - returned from Salem, Tuesday, where he had been to 'attend the funeral ot his daughter, who died at the asylum, Sunday. ; Mr.- VValtz has been qisi:e ill siuce Si.n day, with nenraljiia' . : V : ' ' ' ; Mr" Wheeler and family, who moved tothU vicinity last f pring Iioni NebraBKa, intend starting to Idaho. today, a. it seems they were noi atiefied.here.. We regret their departnre,.for they are well thought of, and a help to any community. The little boy of Mr. and Mrs-JEmil Howard, who has been-'quite sick with typhoid ;'e ver, seems to gradually im-t proving, aod will, no doubt,. "ith. proper c.ve, intirely recover. 7 The people of the Beighljorliood in gen- erat sra nfferiMg'from severe arid light atta-tas of la grippe, but hopeto recover soon..' ' , ' ' ' , - This vicinity has not misled, its share of the cold weather that is- visiting other communities, ' Some think the grain -is injured, while others have been too busy trying to keep themselves warm to think of grain at all. '- If this cold snap ends in a rain, however, it may "not seriously ef fect the grain or grass. !.': The Corvallis Gazette Notions for February. Gazette Bell phcne No 341. ; Umbrella work tt J. K. Berry's. OiiveB id bulk at P, lA. Zierolf a. Gazette Independent phone No 433. Al work guaranteed BertyV, Et J. K. UmbrfllaB recovered .and repair ed at J. K. Berry's. Get your Berrv'B. ribs fixed at J. - K, Da rot fail to see P. line of holiday china. M. ZierolPa 0 A. twice-a-week newspaper containing 72 columns each week of the current news of Get your school books and school supplies at Graham & Wells. Lewis and Clark souvenir plates at P. M. Zierolfs. Silk and woolen goods a specialty at Corvallis Steam Laundry. , OAC souvenir Zierolfs.- dishes at P. M, . Send your lace curtains to Cor Aallis Steam Laundry. Patronize home industry Cor vallis Steam Laundry. - Benton County. ( BELLFOUNTAIN. A Comparison. Extracts from an editorial writ: ten by M. D. Gage, of San" Jose, for the fcjan Jose Mercury, April 13, 1904. He says m part: In no two representatives of modern occultism has there been such unity in diversity as in Miss Marguerite Foy and Miss Anna Eva Fay. - For the two distinct types of sensitive, nervous organ isms, : represented by , them are peculiarly distinguished- bv the nervous tempera'nents which char acferize the hypnotist and the cl airvoyant individual. Miss Foy has dark hair ana eyes, and a vigr -oroas, or positively magnetic per-" sonality whtie : Miss Fay's - hair and complex! oivare'-light arid her physical organism is less vigorous, and therefore negatively magnet ic to her ? 'control and her audi Miss Inez Williams, Golda Howard and Bertha Coon returned to OAC today,, after a visit of some days at their respect ive homes.. .MK Boyd, the blacksmMi, and family, receutW- moved to linn Co., near Siiedil Station, where they intend to reside. i Mack. "V . B V ' ... .. B,: Oregonians in the Cold. Mr., and Mrs. Montgomery Robinson, who left Corvallis, last fall, have been visiting through various parts of the Bast, and are now in Cedar Rapids. 'Iowa. The 'snow there is about two feet deep and the weather is very cold They enjoyed (?) a sleigh ridel ' irrawd Exposed.. . . v . . A few eounterfc-iiers have lately b?en makiug and trying to sell imitations. of Dr. Kings New Discovery for consnmp . tion, Coughs aud Colds, and other medi cines, thereby defrauding the public Thitf is to warn you to beware of such people, who seek to profit, though steal ing the' reputation of remedies which have been Successfully curing disease, for over 35 years. - A sure protection, to you, is our name on the .wrapper. Look for it, on all Dr. 2ings or Bucklen's remedies as all others are mere iinita tationt. H. . Bnckien & Co., Chicago, III. and Windsor, canada. For sale Dy Allen & Woodward . , R)HYSICmirEYCSB Vakoa Kldoaya and Bladder Blaht . Miss Palmer has been tafting the place city limits.W as these precincts t of the Bellfountain school, . bile cannot De cnarigea under one law ; 8ne attended the teachers' examination before November, 1906, and not I ia9tweek- then' unlfess t.hpr nnnf-.v v rmirf:l.. v deems it advisable. I think itlwM;9 S' Starr returned home last will nt r-.ai l-,of;-F 1, T,; Wdneslay from Halsey, lie re sh has Rill bar! hpPAwiA a' law if ,JLmI vlsitiug her .daughter, Mf? H. L not have been possible for the - saloon interests, m Corvallis -to have even demanded a yote on this question before-June 1908. As, nearly "all the towns in this state went wet at . last election, the Jayne Bill was evidentlyp re pared for theiprotection of these ; wet towns, but in doing so, the' f ramers Of this bill lost sight , of the effect it would have, in. the few' towns like ,.Cof valiis - that - went 1 dry. borne oi the -saloon men m Corvallis ' 'caught on'..' to ie. eifect this bill .would Save on Corvallisand duriiig-the. last few: days of the session I received noti only requests from temperate' people,, but a "few very urjrent 1 letters from saloon men ; in - Cor-1 valiis" : requesting ms to " vote arainst the JavnePiil. 1 The amendments to 'the; Jayne Bill, fcaown as . the .Co'e amend-j ments, wer,e incorporated -in: the report 01: tne. senate '-judiciary committee which ; provided "for a petition of not less; than 25;'per cent of the legal -i'votersV a town like Corvallis eculu votenly; as a whole (not. "by Iwardl or 'pr ciasriti) and fui-cnjr 'prr.TiJ3.l, that the', election shajidaiot hi held before the first' . Mon-iay, ia; June .1306,; and , only "biennially! thereafter- - I favored and voted 1 for these ' amendments- whica I would have passed the S&hate ' had they came in a little earlier so the senators . could havejoad more time to examine, them- v A maiority of the senators 'in cluding myself - were, in fayor of passing some msasures that could not be justly charged with unfair ness by either side; that after be ing submitted to the people .and Semi- Weekly Standard A cedar fchingle9 for $1.50 per thousand at the Corval lis Saw Mill, v 10 tf. Second grade fir lumber, almost any dimension, f r only $6. 50 per thousand fett, at Corvallis Saw Mill. - - - latf. Are you going with the crowd? The time of your life the event of the season W O. . W., Albanv, Feb. 25. 11-18 Thirteen huudied shares Great Eastern Mining company stock for Fale at 10 ceDts per share. Ad dress Box 62, Corvallis, Oregon. -.. 11-15 All the local news all of the time, with a large amount of miscellaneous martet. A Menaace to Health. to know who is doing one of the largest businesses in town, just take a peep at our , store and see what WE are doing. " - There are whys and wherefores to everything. ; The people trade with us, first, because they like our way of doing busines; second, v because they admire our broad,, liberal policy; and third, . because they know we. keep eyery thing in the' House-furnishing line and at prices within reach of every one. Our new spring stock of Go-carts will arrive about Feb ;them we will sell those on hand at greatly reduced prices for" terms. r , ' v - ijth To make room for Easy payments ask Kidney trouble is an insidious danger snd many people are of a serious malady beford the symptoms ftre recognized. Foley's Kidney cure corrects Irregulari ties and strengthens and bnilds up the kidnies, and it should be taken at tne first fndicatioa of kidney trouble, as it is .impossibl t to have good heanh i: the kidnevs are deranged. For Bale-ly jra hara & Wortham. - 1 15 it ean Wave." and ashars always on hand. ' . .Prompt Service and Courteous Treatment. . HOLLEWBERG & CADY. f HE STORt THAT SAVES YOU MONEY. i 9 -i t
