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About Corvallis gazette. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1905)
5 J 10CAL AND PERSONAL to of Hayward Victoria, visit with McCollum home at Mr. and Mrs. Guy Seeley-were passengers to Portland, Sunday, for a week's stay at the Fair. Elmer Bether and Henry Horn have beeii employed of late at the task of painting at the college. Misses Beesie and Ruby Dilley went to Scio, several days ago, visit with relatives for a couple weeks. : , '' . , .. Harley Hall and Rev. Feese went to Alsea Tuesday, the former to set up a binder and the latter to look up a camping site. Prof, and Mrs. E. C. departed Tueeday, for B. C, for an extended Prof. Hayward's parents Mr. and Mrs. Will left Monday for their Athena, Eastern Oregon, after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Lee Hen-kle. Mr. and Mrs. William Carver, who have been here of late visiting S. N. Lilly, Mrs. Carver's father, departed for their Iowa home, Wednesday. J' Benson Starr, who has been in Arizona the past two years, arrived in Corvallis a few davs aeo tor a visit with relatives. He was ac companied by Mrs. Starr. W. Huggins was down from June ' tion City duringthe first of the week He reports everything about nor mal in that section. Crops are ae good as average, possible a little bet ter. Mrs. F. A. Hencye left yesterday for Portland, where her mother and eister will join her and they will go to Long Beach, Wash., where they are to eniov the remainder of the summer. In every quarter we hear the hum of the mower and binder now-a-days. Those in a position to know claim that the hay crop this year will be unprecedented in quantity. The grain yield will also be good Mrs. L. 0. Wessel and Mrs. J. A. Willwerseheid, Bisters of A- J. Metz aer. arrived in this city last Mon day evening from St. Paul, Minne sota, for a visit of indefinite length. They are delighted with the country Mrs. William Lee, daughter and niece, who were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Miller, re returned to Portland during the first of the week to meet Mr. Lee. when they were to proceed on East to thejr home in Iowa Mart Spaugler and wife and Miss Lruu bpangler returned from the coast, Tuesday. Wednesday, Mr. and Mrs. Spangler left for Salem, from where, after a short visit, they go to Oregon City. Next Tuesday they will leave for their home m Oakland, California'. Mrs. Nellie Skielp, formerly the wife of John Hanson, who was merchant tailor in this city for number ot years, renewed her ac quaintance in this city last week She was much pleased at the im provements noticeable in Corvallis Her home is now at Bellingham Bay. Wash. bherm .Burnett has received an invitation to be present at the exe cution of Norman Williams, which takes place at The Dalles at 6 a. in today. Williams was convicted the murder of Alma Nesbit, at Hood River. May, 28, 1904, and re sentenced, after appeal, on June 10, 1905. Mrs. W. E. Sherrill was expected to arrive in this city last evening from Haskell, Texas, for an indefi nite visit at the home of her aunt, Mrs. F'. P. Morgan, whom she had not seen for nine years. Her health has been poor for some time and she expects the unsurpassable cli mate of Benton county to do her much good. : John H. Starr, wife and child, cf Junction City, arrived in Corvallis, Saturday, and spent Sunday with relatives, returning home, Monday. Mr. Starr has for several years been clerking in a Junction City dry goods 6tore, but he has just resign ed, to accept a position as organizer for the M. W. A. He leaves short ly for Eastern Oregon to begin work. Mrs. Minnie Lee and her niece, Miss May Elston, departed,. Tues day, for Portland, where they will visit the Exposition for a few days. They will then proceed to Dayton, Wash., where Mrs. Lee's brother resides, and make him a short vis it. Mrs. Lee will then come home, : while Miss Elston will proceed East to her home in Blunton, Indiana. Within a few days, Art Henkle, who recently disposed of his restau rant business in this city , will take his family to the mountains in the neighborhood of Mt. Rainier, Wash. They will camp out for a month or two, after which Art contemplates going into the restaurant business in Chelalis, Wash., or into some other proposition in Eastern Oregon W. G. Emery was a business visitor to Albany last Tuesday. Richard Zahn came out from Al sea, Monday, for a short business visit. J. C. Hammel, proprietor of Hotel Corvallis, now owns a bus team. He purchased quite a fine team of bays, last Tuesday, for exclusive use on the bus. P. M. Zierolf arrived home Wed nesday from Portland, where he had teen receiving treatment for his rheumatism. His condition is much improved. This evening T. T. Bainhart will start for Los Angeles, Calif. He has the promise of lots of work when he reaches his destination, and at good wages. Mr. Barnhart is a gaod workman and we hope him the success that he merits when he arrives in his new field. If satisfactory in Los Angeles he will move his family there before the rains set in this fall. The ladies of the United Evan gelical church enjoyed a splendid patronage last luesday evening, the occasion being their ice cream social. The total receipts were $42.50, a most splendid total. The ladies request us to express their thanks to all who so kindly re membered them on this occasion The lawn was nicely illuminated with electric lights and Japanese lanterns. J. P. Logan, the Kings Valley miller, was in town on business,; Wednesday. Mr. Logan has just completed a wheat house of 15,000 bushels capacity. He says every thing is good with himself and "in his section. His mill is running steadily andjjaas a capacity of 30 barrels of flour per day. It is a water-power mill and is situated on the Luckiamute river. Simpson & Fisher, the breeders of Buff LeghornB at the Buff Leg horn Farm near Albany, Or., have gone out of business. They have sold their entire lot of birds to F. L. Miller at Corvallis and Mr. Mil ler will put them on his thirty-acre poultry farm. Things around this place will have an entirely golden hue and it is doubtless a safe guess to say that the income will have the same color. Northwest Poultry Journal. Laurence Helm arrived in Cor vallis last Monday evening from his home in Weatherford, Texas. He has been absent for eleven years and during this time fortune, has been more kind to him than to the maiority of mankind. For a time he engaged in the dairy business, but found this too strenuous and got out of it and is now handling real estate. Ha is a son of Mrs. F. A. Helm of this city and can boast of a host of friends in this, his boyhood home- He will leave for Weatherford next Monday. t The following dispatch has been sent cut from Grants Pass: Prof. A. B. Cordley, of the Oregon State Experiment Station has returned to Corvallis after spending several days visiting the Josephine county melon fields. The purpose of Prof. Cordley's visit is to identify the strange bug that is destroying the melon vines of the fields about Grants Pass. A number of vines killed by the pest and several speci mens of the bugs were taken by frof. Cordley to the experiment station, where he hopes to make identification and discover a method of destroying the pest. . lhe death ot Uharley Tower oc curred last Tuesday night at the poor farm. A raontn or two . ago the county authorities had him taken out to the farm, afe he was in a helpless condition and needed attention. Old age and asthmatic trouble combined, in a degree with consumption, neglect of himself previous to his becoming a county charge, are the reported cause of his death. Coroner Wilkins was among Mr. Tower's old-time friends, Wednesday, seeing what could be done in the way of burying the re mains in a grave other than in the potter s field. It was arranged to inter the remains in Crystal Lake cemetery yesterday. Nothing is known of Mr. Tower s early history He had been an inhabitant of this city many years. A number of months s go Willis Scott had the misfortune to cut his left knee cap slightly. It soon healed up and ' he paid little at ten tion to the case. About a month ago, while painting oa his house he knelt down and the knee that had been cut began to pain him severe ly. It grew rapidly worse and was so paintui that physicians were summoned to attend him. Blood poisoning developed and for a time it seemed that his life was ieopardiz ed. lhe trouble spread up his leg and into his left side. Many times he was under the lance and for a period all ' efforts seemed vain. However, it is now thought that he is on the road to recovery, although for many weeks he has been con fined to his bed, and it is under rtor? tv.ste-fs still bedfas. MID-SUMMER MEETING. Board of Regents Transacted Bus- ness of Sbme Importance. of Wednesday afternoon at O- A. C. was held the mid-summer meeting of the board of regents of the Agricultural College. Con siderable business of importance was disposed oi, and the meeting was in all ways harmonious. The meeting began at 2:30 and did not close until nearly six o'clock. Koll call showed all members of the board present save Judge cotton, ot rortland, and Govern or Chamberlain. The first busi ness of the session was the read ing of their reports by President Gatch of the college and J. K. Weatherford president of the board. These contained no fea tures of special importance, al though both were found entirely satisfactory. The financial re port was also read and found to be gratifying to the board. All accounts were in good shape. A special committee; consist ing of President Gatch, J. K. Weatherford and Eegent Olwell, was appointed to secure a pro fessor of horticulture to fill the newly created chair at 0. A. C. A. T. Irwin, of Iowa, was recom mended for the place by the department of horticulture at Washintgon. An apportionment ot salaries was made from the experiment and college funds. R. C- Shepard, secretary of the college Y. M. C. A.,- and Mr. Stone, state secretary, came be fore the board with a request that the college give light, heat, water and sewerage lor the pro posed Y. M. C. A. building, for the erection of which $11,000, they said, had been subscribed. lhe matter was referred to a special committee, with power to act, after the opinion of the At torney General shall have been secured regarding certain rigths m the matter. Resolutions of condolence were adopted regarding the late Presi dent Bloss, and Regents Church and Killin. The matter was discussed and the college decided to purchase, the 5 or 6 acre tract of land and the residence property on college hill now known as the Withy- combe home. The price to be paid is $6,000. Just what use is to be made of tne property was not made apparent at Wednes day meeting. . A resolution- was introduced asking Dr. Withycombe to resign his position at O. A. C. within ten days or stop his canvass for the governorship. The resolution was at once voted down. The sum of $500 was voted for use m securing additional appa ratus in the mining department. C. Lv Proebstel was elected as sistant to Prof Fulton, and his salary fixed at $780 per annum.' Harry Beard was elected as as sistant in the mechanical depart ment and director of the college band, at a salary ot $7u. He is at present employedat the state Reform School. The resignation of Prof. Mar garet Snell was tendered, to take effect m one year. The omce el armorer was abolished, the work to be done hereafter by the students. The board endorsed most heart ily the Good Roads movement recently inaugurated here. . Salaries were raised as follows Prof. Fulton from $1,284 to $1, 400: Prof. Tartar from $600 to $780, and the wages of Bert Pilk ington from 15 to 30 cents per hour. p. n; yesper service and sermon 8 p. m. Morning sermon, "The Power ot Gentleness." Evening sermon, "What is an,'AU-Round Christian Life, Opinions by Great Men." , There will be Service at Plymouth at 3 o'clock. Tueeday, Mrs. Fred Oveslander arrived home from Alsea. ' Additional Local. See Blackledge for furniture, etc ; 26 J. C. Taylor is having his resi deuce painted. Arch Horning is doing the work. Blackledge, leading wall dealer. Prof. Covell has sister, of Elmira, him. ' paper .301 his mother au N. Y., visiting 35th GOTO 35th NNlVERSAmr SALE Largest line of matting in coun ty at Blackledges. 30tf Miss Francis Belknap and her mother went to Portland, Tuesday, to spend a week. Jaspar Hayden is building a very nice residence on his 'Alsea farm. William Rider, of this city, is doing the work. ' Wanted mill and yard men, by Booth-Kelly Lbr. Co.r Coburg., Or. Good wages and steady work. 57-8. Mrs. G. H. Feese and children re turned home a few days ago from a visit of several weeks with friends in Cottage Grove. Congregational Church Sunday school 10 a. m.; worship and ser mon 11 s. ,ao (.-. E., mccU.-.r 7 W. P. Lafferty and wife, and son, Chester, are to be found until further notice at Elk City. We are irformad that articles are being drafted for the incorpora tion of the Corvallis Sawmill Co. Mrs. F. P. Sheasgreen and younger children are to leave today for Alsea to be gone for two or three weeks' outing. Mrs. Addie Thompson returned to her Seattle home, Tuesday. She was accompanied as far as Portland by Mrs. E." Woodward. '. Horace Locke was over from Al bany, Wednesday, in the interest of a tea firm of that city. Horace comes over twice a months Joseph Henkle left the first of me wees ior Ainena, ur., wnere De will pass the summer with his sister, Mrs. William McCollum. D. C. Rose hai j ust started work on a modern cottage out on his place west oi this city. It is to cost $950 and Adams Bros have the contract. Misses Marv and Emma Thomp son went to the coast yesterday to pend a couple of months. Othei members of the family preceded them a few days. Ed Philips departed Tuesday evening for the scene of his laborb near Jacksonville. He is employed as assayerin the Oregon Bell Mines and likes his position very much. He was here only a day or sc. Presbvterian Church Rev. M. S. Bush, pastor. Bible school 10 m.; worship 11 a. in.; subiect. Justification;" C. E. meeting 7 m.; evening service 8, subject, "Drifting." ' Swingler & Hall have opened a new meat market in the block just north of Hotel Corvallis and on the same side of the street. We are informed that these gentlemen are from Alb .ny. Every man owes it to himself and his family to master a trade or pro fession. Read the display adver- tisemeut of the six Morse Schools of Telegraphy, in this issue, and learn how easily a young man or ; lady may learn telegraphy and be as sured a position. 58-93. "In Cohasset last summer," said William H. Crane in a' New York club, "I learned for the first time what love really is. It was through an overheard conversation that I got iiy knowledge. . It was a con versation between a young man and a pretty girl. vA"d do.you really love me, said the pretty girl. !Lov:, you?' the young man crie. ' 'Why j darling, while I was bidding you good bye on the p rch last night, I your dog bit alarg. niece out if th calf of my leg, ami I never noticed it till I got home." V Ambler & Watters report : the negotiation of the following recent sales: A W Pugy to Dr. Newth.1 house and lot in Philomath, $1,000; J L Van Blaricum to J D Delaney, Lib acres 4 miles southwest of Philo math, $1,000; H Ambler to M Bur- nap, house and two lots in Philo math, house and lot Newport, $2,600; J R Brown to M D Hall, 93acre8 five miles from Corvaliie, $3,250; A Bicknell to Albert Deu- nev, 215 acres seven miles north of Corvallis, $6,000; Fridley Bros, to1 J P. McBee, 135 acres seven miles I southwest of Corvallis, $4,050. ' . j . . . . v ... "Here I am in your state at last. Upon my return to California I hope to be able to pay your Tittie city a1 flying visit." The above anriouncp ment was received by Mrs. L. V. Flint from Harrison D. Barrett, president of the National Spiritualist Association. It is said that ; Presi dent Harrison will shortly deliver a lecture here, but the exact date is not known.-Spiritualists are planning to give the distinguished gentleman a fitting reception , and will arrange to give all an opportunity of hearing him. - Ar rangements arl in the hands of Dr. Flint and H. H. Glassford. : As this "week marks the Thirty-fifth year that I have been in business in Corvallis, I wish first to thank my patrons and friends for the , liberal patronage they have extended me, and ' to announce that, as has been my custom. I am going to hold an Anniversary Sale for just one week, but this year I am going to offer you prices that will eclipse any previously made on the same lines of goods. HERE ARE SOME OF THE PRICES I AM MAKING: 1,900 yards Torshon Lace and insertion, all widths and select patterns, while it lasts, 5c per yard. Thompson's Glove Fitting and W. B. Corsets to fit all forms. $1.50, $1.25, and $1.00 grades are going at 75c. 50c values reduced to 36c Ladies' Sailor Hats, this line we are going to discontinue. 50c values 24c. 25c values 19c Special, Amoskeag Ginghams, all colors, 5c per yard. Ladies' Purses and Hand Bags, black, brown, white andtan, leather and velvet. . Regular $1.50, reduced to $1.15. " 1.25, " " .95. " 1.00, " " .75. " .75, " " ,4a Ladies' Auto, Yacht, Golf, and Saucy Susan caps, all colors. $1.50 caps, now $1.05. ' $1.00 caps, now 78c. 1.25 " " 95c 75c " " 56c 50c caps, now 38c. I want to close out my entire line of Summer Suitings and crash goods, comprising Voiles, Scotch Oxfords, Mercerized Taffetas, Spot Mohairs and Crepes, Luster Linens and Homespun Suit ings, n the season's latest shades, at the following prices: 40c goods reduced to 31c.' 30c " " " 22c. 20c " " " 15c. 124c 10c. 35c- goods reduced to 27c. 25c " " " 19c. 16c " " "12it. 10c " . " " 8c. 50 pairs of Men's Trousers and Outing Pants, reduced from $4.50 to $3.60. $4.00 to $3.20. 3.50 " 2.65. 3.00 " 2.35. $2.50 to $195. Boy's Buster Brown, Norfolk and Middy Suits, size 3 to 8 years. Regular $3.50, special $2.95 " - 3.00, " 2.55. 2.50, " 2.15. " 2.00, " 1.65. 1.50, " 1.29. GROCERY DEPARTMENT, EXTRA SPECIAL Ball Mason Fruit Jars, pints 60c 1 1 II CI it quarts 73c " half-gal $1.00 21 pounds choice Rice- ---$1.00 6 cans Sardines - 25c Extra Standard Tomatoes, per can 10c u , ft doz - $1.00 Corn, per can - - -- 10c Arm and Hammer or Schillings Soda, ' 4 packages for 25e Western Dry Granulated Sugar, sack $5.70 Fruit Sugar, per sack-- ' $5.70 The White House, Gorvailis, Ore. A MAN Is Judged by the Hat he Wears. Good Piano for Rent. Terms three dollars per month, to the right parties. Address H. W. Strong or inquire at Corvallis saw mill. 60 3 Cured of Bright's Disease. Mr. Robert O. Burke, Elnora, N. Y., writes:. Before I started to use Foley's Kidney Cure 1 had to get iap from twelve to twenty times a night, and was all bloated up with dropsy and my eyesight was so impaired I could scarcely see one of my family : across the room. I ' had given up hope of living when a friend recommended Foley's Kidney Cure. ,One 50 cent bottle worked wonders and before I had taken the third bottle the dropsy had gone, as well as all other symptoms of Bright's disease." Sold by Graham & 'Vnrt'-am. We carry a larger stock of Hats than ' some exclusive hat' stores. If you don't believe kit we'll show you the goods. F. L. MILLER, CORVALLIS OREGON Lu mberfbr Sale Fir Lumber, dressed or rough. Complete house bills delivered if so 'desired. It will pay you to investigate the prices. ' Mills two miles west of Independent" 'school house. Bell phone 4x2. OTIS SKIPTON, ' ' a t . ' ' R. F. D. No. 2. Corvallis, Oregon.