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About Corvallis gazette. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 29, 1905)
LOCAL AND PERSONAL; 80tf Bert Yates was up froth Van couver, Washington, duriDg the holidays. . James Law has had quite a serious time of late with la grippe. Mrs. E. E- Mundy went to Portland, Wednesday, to visit a few days. Wanted to rent a typewriting machine in good condition. Ad dress xx Gazette. Corvallis. Pallintr rn rea zonular styles m cards and type at tho office. Tupsdav. Mrs. Ed Andrews ai rived from Portland, -where she bad undergone a surgical operation Both Mrs. Anna -Day and Miss Eva Day were suddenly taken ill last week. The latter suffered with high fever. Miss Ethel Knighteu arrived in lis - Tuesdav. from , Polk county, and will remain here dur ing the winter. Oharlev Overlander arrived in Cm-vallis. Wednesday, from his Big wiir rar.nh and will visit with his brother, Fred, for a week or so. Joseph Garrow and wife expected to return to their Oalem nome yes tnrrW having Dassed Chrifatmss with relatives in this city. Ta Jacobs came home Sunday to pass Christmas with his mother, .Mrs. M.Jacobs, ana returneu to Portland on Tuesday. Harriet and Mabel Sheasgreen were Albanv visitors on Monday whnrH thev ate turkey with their brother, Walter, and returned home that evening. Phillip Smith, Bon of D. M Smith, formerly of this city, ar rived in , Corvallis, . Wednesday morning, for a brief visit with o Jt friends. . E-l Crawford came up from Salem on Christmas eve and spent Christ mas dav with his parents in this ckv. returning to Salem on the , early train Tuesday. E- P. Wing, who is teaching school in Alsea, came out Saturday and BDent a couple of days with relatives, returning to his duties Monday. John Howard is spending ihe holidays in ibis city with relatives and friends. John is a graduate, of OAC and is now mating his home near Prineville, Central Oregon, r The gentlemen members of the M. E. church presented Miss Lib bie Rice, organist of this church, with a splendid rocking chair as a Christmas present in appreciation of her services in the past. Wednesday the wedding of Sam uel Ewing, of this city, and a Miss Hodges was to have occurred in Portland. Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Flinn went to the metropolis Tues day to attend the ceremony . Roman Zahn came over from his Alsea home and spent ChriBtmas. He came out over Alsea mountain and declares the road to be very good for thiB season of the year. He expected to return home yester-r day. Mrs.. A. V. Thrasher and eon, of this city, were very successful in exhibiting their White Plymouth Rocks at the Albany poultry show, which closed last Saturday. They received prizes for first collection first pen. first cock, first hen, first pullet, second cockerel, second pul t, third pullet and nith hen. A few days ago Supt.- G. W, nman received the bronze medal t was awarded -Benton county the Lewis and Clark Fair Com ission for the work exhibited in educational work by the elementary grades in our county: scnools. While it is called a bronze medal it is in reality a diploma, and a very nice one, too. Ambler & Waters negotiated the sale of Dilley & Arnold's bicycle establishment to J. F. Tyler a few days ago ..and the new proprietor will be in charge about the first of the year. Mr. lyler came here from Minnesota about a year ago and is reported to be a splendid mechanic. Mr. Dilley, speaking of his past, Bays this will be the first time in thirty years that he has not been in business. Henry S. Westbrook, general freight agent for the 0. C. T. Co., in response to a request 'from John F. Allen, secretary of the Benton County Citizens' League, has Bigni- write-up hed his intention to be present at lowing appeared the meeting of the League, iuesday young man who . - . I L -J i ) I I . evening. January z. ana wm dis cuss the matter of an open river to i Corvallis the year around and free locks, This is the most important pan oi tne vauey m ine race toaay and it is sincerely1 hoped that our business men will turn out en masse on this occasion and hear what Mr. Westbrook will have to say. Miss Olive Thompson arrived home from Boise, Idaho, and is to remain here for an indefinite period. Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Heckart visited with Corvallis friends for a couple ot days during the week. They returned to their Eugene home Wednesday evening. Miss Ellen J. Chamberlain, who for seveial years was a well-known instructor at OAC, but who now re sides in Seattle, has been in Cor vallis with friends during the past week. The Yonng People's Society of Christian Endeayor of the Congre gational church will give a supper and social in the church parlors Friday evening. Clam Chowder will be served from 5 o'clock on. Sunday morning subject at the Methodist Episcopal church, ''Car nality a Foe to Good Resolutions." Evening subject, "The certainties and Uncertainties of Life." At 10:30 o'clock a watch meeting will begin to conclude at the midnight hour. The public is cordially in vited to attend this service. A. Bennett, editor . of Irrigator, Irrigon, Eastern Oregon, has been in Corvallis during the week. Mr. Bennett was making a little cruise of the valley for the purpose of awakening an interest on the part of bis fellow editors in the coming meeting of the Press Association Mr. Bennett is making his journal a power in his section of the coun try and much may be expected of him in the future. Congregational Church, Sunday School at 10, Worship and sermon at 11, Junior Endeavor at 4, Senior Endeavor at 6:30 and Even ing Service and sermon at 7:30. Morning subject, "What Does xour Church Stand For?" The offering will be devoted to the cause of Home Missions. Sunday evening being the last service in the year will be devoted to "Reviews and Foregleams." The ladies of the Congregational church held a delightful missionary meeting last Thursday at the home of Mrs. Thomas Whitehorn. Three excellent papers were given by Mrs. B-rchtold, Mrs. A. E. Wilkins and Miss Campbell. After the program refreshments were served and all enjoyed the social hour most heartily. Forty ladies were pres ent and Mrs-. Whitehorn proved herself a success as hostess. At the Congregational church on Monday evening the Christmas ex-' erases were given before a ' large audience. - One of the new features of the evening was the singing by young girls' " choir. The girls were dressed inuniform white robe and well deserved the applause which greeted them.- After a few i well chosen remarks by the pastor. Rev." Green, the presenis from then two beautiful and well filled trees were distributed to the members of the Sundny School. The committee for gonsidering the matter of granting a - franchise to an electric light and power com pany to operate in this city met Tuesday evening ; and discussed at some length, but did no business of any inportance. It appears that the company seeking to obtain tne franchise had' been asked - lor a schedule of rates they intended to charge and did not have it on hand owing to what was either an over sight or a mistake on the part of the company. It is expected that the scale of rates intended to be charged will have arrived by this evening and auother' meeting is scheduled for tonight. Postmaster Johnson miormt us that the government will receive bids up to January 23, 1905, for the contract to carry mail by stage from Albaiy via Corvallis to Philo math, seven trips per week. , The! contract is to be let for a period of four years, beginning July 1, 1906, and closing June 60, 1910. Ihe party securing the contract will be called upon to give a bond of $2500. The distance from Albany to Philo math over the route the mail is to go is a trifle more : than 18 miles. For the information of those who may - intend to submit mas it may be stated that the' advertisements for the same may be found posted in the 'postofficp. The Hindu students attending OAC evince great interest in the affairs and conditions of our country. During the sessions' of the State Dairymen's Association, held in Forest Grove last week, Mr. Sinha, a Hindu student of OAC, was present and made a talk. In the in the Oregonian the f ol- M. C. Sinba, a came to this May it be a happy and prosperous New Year 7 S. L. Kline, Prop. The People's Store Established 1864 I Our 36th Annual Clearance Sale is now in progress - Great reductions all departments It's for your benefit to trade here 3 f " ' 1 The Pianola Piano A Piano That Will Give Yoa Ten Times More Actual Pleasure Than Any Piano You Have Ever Owned. country trom : India and is now studying agricultural interests at Corvallis, "with a view to returning to his own land to instruct his countrymen, gays' a very interest ing talk on differences between con ditions there and here. He is im pressed with the thought that India can never rise until its people learn to respect labor as it is honored m this-country. . grade manufacturers, are every day being receiyed in part payment. That people everywhere should part with instruments which they have hither to valued biuhly, is impressive evi dence oi the position that the Pianola Piano has attained among music lov ers. It is THE piano of the day. If you have a piano from which you derive comparatively little musical , enjoyment why not exchange it for this new type of pianov which will be a daily source of pleasure for every member of the family? Write for terms on which such exchange will be made. Pianola Pianos are sold only by Eilers Piano House, Portland,.. Ore., and through its many stores and re presentatives. . The people of this vicinity will un doubtedly be pleased to know that There are two accepted ways of play ing the piano today : -; 1. By hand. 2. By the Pianola. Both of these methods are united in the Pianola. You can turn from one method to the other INSTANT ANEOUSLY. The Pianola is built into the piano itself, so that there is nothing to move up to or away from the keyboard. Both piano and Pianola are just as effective as though in separ ate instruments. Never has a piano been presented to the public which has met with such a remarkable and enthusiastic recep tion as the Pianola Piano. . Its great success was to be expected, for ,it re--presents the logical deyelopment of the piano. It enables everyone to ob tain from a piano ALL the musical eniovment the instrument is capable of. In the light of this important any turtner information concerning improvement in ' piano-construction, the. Pianola Piano, Pianos, Organs, all previous pianos seem incomplete, etc., can be obtained from. Professor Hence the Pianola Piano has become Taillandier, director of the piano de uniYersally known as "The First Com- partment of Corvallis Agricultural plete Piano." College , and can be seen atr his resi- - Pianos of all makes taken in ex- dence on -College Hill on - Saturday change lor the Pianola Piano. Grands and every evening of the week. A and uprights in excellent condition, telephone call will bring him to your : and bearing the names-of the highest house, Ind. 185. .. .. Prof. G. TaUandiety Special Representative Eilers Piano House, Our Big, Stock Reducing Cash Sale is Still On v 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. Come early; you can't avoid the rush, but you can come before your sizes are all gone. ' Every bolt bf 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. Miller J
