2) 10CAL AND PERSONU Jesse Moees has moved his family into what was formerly the F. P. Sheasgieen residence. County court has been in sessiou this week for considering the yar ious matters of coun y business. "The audience was charmed wit'i the eloquence of Lecturer G. A. Gearhart." Boston Globe. At Corvallis Opera House Dec. 14. . George Moore is just completing a new residence for himself in Job's addition. The residence lies just outh of the Chas. Btakeelee home. Dr. E. E. Jackson, of Salem, was in the city this week. He is a vet erina'v surgeon and is seriously thinking of locating in Corvallis to make bis permanent home. Wanted 25 additional ladies to eing alto and soprano. Big wages guaranteed. Apply Monday even ing at the College chapel. Com mittee. , The first electrical effect ever introduced into window dressing in Corvallis can now be seen of eyenings in the windows of J. M. Nolan & Son. The effect of the flashes is delighvful. The ladies of the M. E. church will hold a housekeeper's sale at the old Farmers Hotel, Tuesday and Wednesday, December 19 and '20, to be closed with a chicken pie dinner on Wednesday. The Rev. John Simpson, Rector of St. Marks church, Portland, will preach tbis (Friday) evening at tne Eniscopxl church at 7:30 p. m The public is corially inyited to hear this emineut divine. James Lewis reports baring negotiated the sale of two lots in this city whereby Chas. Pernot and mother receive deeds from Mrs. Mary Bryson in consideration of $625. The lots sold by Mrs. Bry son adjoin the residence propeity of Attorney E. R. BrysoD. There is to be a dance given in the Opera House tonight. The boys have made every preparation for a good time and beyond doubt there will be no disappointment on the; part of those who attand. Turney's orchestra will furnish the music. Owing to an affliction akin to temporary aberration we neglected to give an account of the game of football played last Saturday in this city between our high school team and a like team from Browns ville. The home lads were victor ious in a score of 16 to 0. Tuesday afternoon the marriage of Joseph Robinet and Lucretia Woods oncu red at the county re corder's office. The ceremony was performed by T. T. Vincent. We are informed that the contracting parties reside near Harris Station on the C. & E. Presbyterian church, M. S. Bnsh, pastor. Bible school at 10.00 a. m. Worship at 11:00 a. m. sub ject, "Made New." C. E." meeting at 6:39 p. m. Evening service at 7:30, subject, "Paul, The Apostle." This will be the pastor's first anni versary in Corvallis. The local lodge of the Modern Woodmen of America are to enter tain the camps from Philomath and Monroe on Saturday evening, Dec ember 16. Great preparations will be made to render the occasion memorable. The evening will close with a "smoker" and a grand banquet. Congregational Church Sunday school at 10:00; Class for Young Men at 10:00; Worship and sermon at 11:00; Junior Endeavor at 4:00; Senior Endeavor at 6:30; Vesper and sermon at 7:30. . Morning ser mon, "The Power that never " Wanep." Evening sermon, "Is the World a Lie?" There will be ser vice at Plymouth at 3.00. The local tryout for the inter collegiate debating team will be held in the college chapel this even ing at 7:30. The question to be discussed is "Resolved, That the Federal Government should own and control the Rail Roada of the United States." Seven literary societies will be represented in th contest and a lively discussion is promised. There will be no admis sion tickets. The societies of th6 school invite everyone to come and help the first move for inter-collegiate debating at OAC. Speaking of our football team the Oregonian says: The defeat by Oregon has been more than offset by performances since that time, for Corvallis has decidedly beaten both the Willamette and Washing ton Universities. Willamette lost to Oregon by a score of 10 to 6, while Waihington tied the Oregon team, and OAC piled up the scores of 29 to 0 against the Salem ag gregation, and walloped Washing ton to the tune of-15 . to 0 score, which would - indicate that the "Farmers" , were " considerably stronger "ban the State Varsity. Wanted A few more men to sing with the local choral society Cxuaranteed cash salary. Apply Monday niant at the college chapel On Fridav pupninir DpftomKap the pupils of the piano and elocu tionary departments of OAC will give a joint recital. , The recital will be given in the college chapel. Those who attend the dance in the Opera House this evening will see a most artistically decorated hall The boys are using bunting and mistletoe with great prod igality. ' The subject Sunday morning for Rev. Reese's discourse is, "Longing tor a Drink at the Old Well Evening: "The Cussedhess of Fool Cussing." Mr. Feese has written a numoer or nig mends tor an opinion on that subject and will read their opinions to the conere gation during the evening. He will keep in confidence the name of the writers. Uyrus McOormick, a student at OAC, visited last week with his mother, who resides in Linn county not far trom Lebanon. He reports tnat during the past year his moth er raised 64 turkeys which she sold during the Thanksgiving holiday? tor lb l-Z cents per pound, gross. The 64 birds netted her $110 in cash. If this can be done in Linn county it can be done in Benton Tuesday, Jack Milne opened a cigar store in the building former ly occupied by D. U. Rose & Son's cigar factory. Mr. Milne intends to coiiduct a first-class resort and there will be pool and whist rooms in connection. Only the best grades of cigars and tobacco will be bandied. See his card in another column. This place will also be the local office for the Monroe stage During the week Dr. E. H. Taylor sold his fine residence prop erty on Third street to H. H. Abel. The consideration was $3,400 and the property consists of two lots and the fine residence, also furni ture in the sum of $400. Dr. Tay lor has always kept the property in first-class condition and his grounds were ever as neat as wax. He will move into a small residence he owns just west of the one sold. The Academic Council of the University of California has taken into its hands the matter cf revis ing the game of football on the Pa cifio coast, so that the objection able features in tbe sport as now played may be eliminated. Stan ford University is co-operating in the movement and the authorities of the two unversities will act in en tire independence of the National- committee on football rules. All the similar universities of the Coast will be asked to bind themselves by the recommendation of the com mittee. ' Mr?. Fred P. James, sister of Mrs. Green, and who has spent the summer with us, left on Saturday morning to visit Portland, Sau Fracisco, Los Angeles, the Grand Canon in Arizona, then to join her husband in Beaumont, Texas, where ehe will be for a few months before returning home in Pitts burg, Pa. Mrs. James during her visit here learned to love Oregon, and hopes some time to return and bring her people with her to make their home here. Tuesday evening the committee appointed from the city council to probe matters relative to grant ing a franchise to an electric light and power company met in the council chamber. There wa9 much discussion pro and con anent cer tain features of the franchise asked, but it was finally decided to ask the council at its regular meeting next Monday night to grant more time and to designate Tuesday night, December 19, as tbe date of another meeting of the committee, j This will beyond a doubt be grant-i ed. The investigating committee is composed of the following gentle men: Chas. Hout, chairman, Geo. E. Lilly, J. B. Irvine, W. T. Wiles and Alex Rennie. - Five thousand turkeys have been shipped from Roseburg, Oregon, so far this season. Some of these went to San Francisco, but the heavier shipments went, to Seattle and Taconua. The pri'ces paid to growers were 16 cents per pound for live and 18 cents per pound for dressed birds. With an average dressed weight of over 12 each, the pride realized by growers approxi mates. $2.25 per head, making turkey raising a very profitable Tiaid nnt. t.n crrnwArn in knot nStw within the past few days. It is re ported , that the disbursements -at Oakland will reach twice that ,sum, and shipments were made" also from Yoncalla,' Drain and ' other points, bringing the total for' the county up . tb approximately $40, 000. PacifiaHomeatead;; - ; There is toTb a dance given by the cadets of OAC' on the evening of December 15."' ' Oregon Dairymen's Association The thirteenth annual meeting of the Oregon Dairymen's Aeoociatioa will be held in Vert's Hall at Forest Grove Oregon, December 22 and 23, 1905. PROGRAM. Friday, December 22. 10 :00 a. m. : Address of welcome, Hon. E. W. Haines, Forest Grove. Kesponee, annual address. Pies. H. West, Suappoose. "Benefits of the State Pure Food Law to the Farmer." J. W. Bailey, Portland, 'VBUiitung the Stave Silo," H. V. Whitney, Greenville. ' ; December 22, 1:30 p. m. : "Hired Help on the Dairy Farm," A. T. Buxton, forest Grove. - 'The Market End of Dairying," W. H. Chaplin, Portland. "Dairy Possibilities of the Pacific Northwest," H. S. Shelton, Portland "Dairy Economy," Dr. Jas. Withy- combe, Corvallis. December 22, 8 p. m. : Music. "Railway Transportation, the Life of Modern Trade and Industry," H. E, Lounsbury, S. P. Co., Portland. : Music. uairy onaiuons as i una them on the Farm," A. H. Lea, Hazelwood Co. Portland. Music. niueruuiusia us iteiaiion to our Milk Supply," Dr. Emil Weschcke, Oak land, Calif. Music. ' Our Dairy Products as an Oregon Advertisement," Tom Richardson, Port land Commercial Club. Saturday, December 23, 10 a. m. : "lhings I Think I have Found out about Dairying." Francis Chalmers, Cornelius. "The Function of a State Dairy Com mission," a. . Tartar, Portland. Pasteurization an Use of Starters," W. W. Grant, Berkeley, Calif. "Farm Dairying," Wm. Schulmerick, Hillsboro. " December 23, 12 m. : Banquet to Members of Association bv Gales Grange No. 282, Patrons of Hus bandry, and Forest Grove Board of Trade. December 23, 2 p. m. : Business session. Report of secretary-treasurer. Considering Resolutious. Elections of officers. i ,. Selection of next place of meeting. The S. P. R R. Co. will sell round trip tickets for this meeting on the cer tificate plan at the usual convention rate, one and one-third fare. In Arizona. Miss Nora Sargent, a daughter of Harvey Sargent, speaking of her father and herself, both of whom are in Arizona, writes the Gazette from Phoenix under date of November 28, as follows: ' We like Arizona, but don't find it as warm or as dry as we had expected. It has rained most of the two weeks that we have been here, but the natives say it is an exception, being the worst weather for this time of the year for twenty or more years. So far it has been very much like our Oregon fall weather, change able, one hour sunshine, then be fore you know it the rain is pour ing down. But Arizona pesple say that it is all right and we should not complain unless it rains eight days in the week as it does in Oregon. On our way down we stopped at Oakland, Xos Angeles, River side and Yuma. The litter city is in Arizona, the two former in California. At Los Angeles we found it so foggy and disagree able that one day was sufficient. In Riverside, where we spent three days visiting friends, we also found rain, for it seemed to be general throughout the South and we couldn' t travel fast enough to get out of it. Papa says that Riverside is the prettiest and cleanest little town (11,000 inhabitants) that he has ever seen, indeed, it well de serves the " name it has "The Pride of California." There are beautiful little orange groves throughout the city. Then, as you take the train going east you travel through forty or fifty miles of the prettiest orange groves in the world. In Yuma one finds an ideal place for those who are suffering with , throat and lung trouble. The mesa(table ground) back of town is both high aild'dry the air pure, and the hot dry sand makes it the best place I have seen It is a regular Mexican town. Of the i.soo inhabitants only about one hundred are white people. I was told . that there were only four white girls beside myself. It is there you find the genuine . savage Indians 5 with painted faces, long hair- decorat ed with feathers, etc., makes your blood run cold and you think of the days of the scalping kni'e, especially when they are partial ly intoxicated as I saw several while there. Phoenix is a pretty little Mex ican town of about 15,000 popu lation. They are to have a fair here commencing Christmas. Additional Local. See Bluckledge for Linoleum, etc. 26 Horace Locke, now of Albany, paid Corvallis a business visit yes terday. Drop-head sewing machines $18 at Blackledge's. 97tf "Mr. Gearhart's lecture," said many who heaid it last hight, "was wortn the cost of the season ticket." The Advance, Wisconsin Corval lis Opera House Dec. 14. Acme Washing' Machines at Blackledge's. 97tf "Last evening Mr. G. A. Gearhart gave us his lecture, 'The Footprints of the Centuries.' It was the greatest masterpiece of rhetoric history, oratory and argument I eyer heard." Dr. Helms, Pastor M. E. church. Buffalo, N. Y. Largest line of matting in coun ty at iilackledges 30tf New goods all the time at No lan S. 99tf A good grade of wall-naDer at 7 1-2 c per double roll at Hollen- oerg Uady's. ' 94tf Word has been received in this city to the effect that Mrs. Ed Andrews, who submitted to asiim- ical operation in' Good Samaritan Hospital. Portland, a tear rfntTQ arm passed through the ordeal as well could be exnected. 1 Calling cards popular styles m arde and tyne at tho Gaet.tp office. sritf The Christmas Fair eivnn in Farmers' Hotel Wednesdav and yesterday was splendidly patronized and at the close of the first evening i.uo receipts were neaT v S n What the ladies realized vesterdav we did not learn. Smalls are now advertising to sell the famous Holly .brand of fl.?ur J.40 per sack. This is tbe same brand of flour used by their bakery. . 97tf Wearthe Rubberhide Bootsand Shoes with waterproofed leather bottoms. Absolutely water tiaht. Sold by J. M.Nolan &. Son. 96-106 Holders of season tickets fir the Lyceum Lecture Course mav secure reserved ee ts at any time from--the third day before the lecture.- The third day is reserved for them Lecture Dec. 14. Gearhart ' comes instead of Lybareer as on vnnr tickets. Anybody having a small fur nished cottage which they will rent, leave word at Gazette of fice. lOOtf Take The Gazette for all the local news. Country school district teachers can be supplied with monthly re port cards by the Gazette. Write your wants. sitf Henry Ambler U making quite a specialty of pigeons and fancy chickens. At the poultry show he secured three first-class prizas on his pigeons and a first and second on hi6 Golden-Laced WvandntteR. He has White Fan-tail and Jacobin pigeons. Take a look at Nolan's holiday wndows. " 99tf Every man owes it to himself and his family to master a trade or profession. Read the display ad yertisement of the Six Morse Schools of Telegraphy, in this issue and learn how easily a young man or lady may learn telegraphy and be assured a position. 67tf The Ladies' Guild of the Epis copal church will hold a Christmas Fair in the Opera House, on the evening of December 12. A musi cal and literary program will be rendered, and at intervals durii g the evening the OAC band wil! play appropriate v. music. The large Honolulu goo?e, whici arrived on the steamer Pomona recently, will be on exhibition a most wonderful creature that "will create intense admiration and awe-inspiring at tention. Refreshments consisting of ice cream and cake, sandwiches, pickles, coffee, etc , will be served. AdmisBien ;fee of ten cents will be charged. Children free. Special attractions for the children have been billed. " 100 1 For Sale. Choice oat, Vetch and cheat seed, to be had at reasonable prices eilher at the Corvallis or Benton Flouring Mills. A. W. FISCHER. Man. 80tt 1 '. y- rowans nonaay gooas are worth one-hundred cents on the dollar the day after Christmas. 99 Santa Glaus has arrived at the e's Presents for Everybody; Dolls, Games, Fan cy Wood and Celluloid Novelty Boxes, Al bums, Fancy China, and most anythingone could wish for. " - Extra Special Imported Japanese Basketry. Baskets ready for trimming, 5c to $1100, and trim med baskets hand painted 25c to $1.50. Baskets for every use and prices that are within the reach of all. Imported Japan ese hand carved Nut Bowls, 35c each. S. L. KLINE The People's Store. Corvallis, Oregon. Our Stock Reducing Cash Sale is Still On The first day's sales weighed in cash just ten pounds, and every customer went out of our store more than pleased with their bargains. Our ladies', misses' and children's shoes ranging in price from $1.40 to $4 that have not only been going out in pairs, but in half dozen lots, at - 96 cents the pair are the talk of the town. s Come early; you cant avoid the rush, but you can come before your sizes are all gone. Every bolt eff goods in the domestic department has been given 15 day's notice to get out of the store at prices that is doing the business. Everything in the house reduced (excepting grocer ies) for cash. ' F. L. WELL WORTH LOOKING INTO is the display of jewelry on exhibition here. There is an attraction about it you will not flnd elsewhere. If rou haven't been in late ly, we advise you to come nw. GOOD JEWELRY is always worth looking - at. When, in ad dition, it is priced as moderately as ours, it's irresisibij. Albert J. Metzger JEWELER Occidental Building, - - .- - Corvallis Useful Gifts Beautiful Gifts Lasting Gifts A piece of good furni ture presented to 'a friend or to some mem ber of the family, is one of the nicest gifts you can think of. Blaokl The Leading Furniture Dealer is in a position, to ; sell furniture at exceptionalljfh prices. The stock is complete' in every particular and a more beautiful line has never ' been brought to the city. 'Come and let uf suggest a gift. , . Store Big Miller edge