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About Corvallis gazette. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1906)
VMies Ea Starr was on the sick liit.tQn Utter part of the week. Harold Wilkins returned Friday from hit holiday .visit to Portland and Oragcn City: J. M. Nolanthe merchant, trans acted business in Portland the latter part of the week. Miss Imogene Gill returned Fri day from a visit through the holi days with relatives at Scio. The county court was busy, Fri day, selecting the 200jurymen to serve for 1907 in the Benton circuit court. Miss Bertha Thrasher returned to Portland Saturday after a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cal Thrasher, in this city. Mayor A. J. Johnson and eons Darrell and imo arrived home Saturday from a visit with relatives in KiDgs Valley and Suver. For ihe quarter ending Decem ber 31st, the Benton county court paid out $25 in bounty scalps, including cats,, cougars and bear. Fred Roth and Cyrus McCormick, both of the '06 class at OAC, arriv el Friday for a visit with old f.-jnd in this city. They are from Sumpter. Mrs. Janet Smith, wh has beer' seri-usly ill at the home of he daughter, Mrs. Vance Taylor, in tfiH c ty fur three weeks, is slightly improved. Rev. G. TI. Gihhs will return fror his visit in Eastern Orego the last tf t ais week and will fil his puloit' next Sunday morning and evening. Cal Thrasher and D. C. Rose left yes'.erdiy f r McMinnville to at tend a meeting of the Oregon Fin-R-ilief Association, of which Mr. Rose is a dirrcior. Mi pes Cleo and Zeta Johnson anived home Fiiday evening from a New Year 8 vjeit to relatives at Scio. TLey were acao npanied home by their grandfather, Mr. Young, who will remain for a visit. The manv f.-ienda of Sam T. Thurston will be pained to karn tbat ills health has not itnproved since he arrived in Phoenix, Arizona, a fw week asjj and that it is fair ed he will not recover. J. C. Lowe who was called to Oklahoma on Christmas day by the eerious illness of his mother, reach ed the bedside the evening before death claimed the sufferer. Mr. Lowe is e pected to return to Cor vallis about the 20ih. He h s the sympathy of all n his sorrow. . The United Artisans installed officers at their lodge hall Thursday e.ening with the following result: P. M., H. H. Crooise; M., T. Brien; sup't, Mrs. Frank Cole; insp, Mrs. Scott King; seo'y Mis8 Eva Starr; treas , Levi Wooster; Sr. con., Mrs R. C. Wills; M. C, Guy Clark; Jr. con., Mrs. T. Brien; tielt com innndef, Scott King aud Mrs. Til lie Reed. The Alsea etaee driver arrived in Corvallis Thursday with a 1630 pound load and a six horse team, and even then he had a desperate time in getting over the mountain road. The mud is reported as something fri'htful, and as soon as the water sinks and the mad thick ens and settles somewhat it will be impossible to haul a loal over the road. Samual Moore is going into the Paw mill business on a large scale. He has purchased 200 acres of land of Mike LegranJe, west of Cnrva'li?, ii nd in ad-.Mion has leased 400 acres of P. A. Kline for a term of years. Mr. Moore has purchased a porta ble pa' mil. of Lindsey Bios, of Woodburp, and as s.on as it rrivts ha will take it to the scene cf action west of Corvallis. An orehardist who ha3 recently been traveling through the Willa mette Valley, states tbat in his opinion the great increase of inter est now showu in fruit growing in the Willamette Valley and the gen eral disposition to clean up and cars for orchards will result in making the fruit crop of the Willa mette Valley within a few years worth more than the whole fruit crop of the slate is worth at the present time. New Year's day, just after the closa of the football game between the "Corvallia Juniors" and the Brownsville team, a couple of youths circulated a paper among business men cm Main street, stat ing that the OAC boys had lost money on the game and were try ibg to ''make good". Some kin 1 hearted parties "dug up" before thev discovered that the names on the list had been forged and 'that the whole thing was a bold fake. It is not known how much the youths secured. It is presumed they came from Brownsville as they were strangers here. Friday evening from a t.ip Cali fornia. .- Mrs. Tom Bell has been ill for several days; at her home in this city. S. E. Shannon and family moved Siturday into the house jutt vaca ted by Ed Looney. Miss Edna Spicer was summoned to Albany Saturday by a message announcing that her sister wss seriously ill' with pneumonia. Rev. G. H. Feese delivered a lecture at Philomath college Friday evening, on "The Otter Fellow's Girl." The .address was warmly received and elicited much praise from those who heard it. Rev. T. S. Handeaker went to Cottage Grove Saturday to begin a revival meeting. Dr. E. C. Sander son of the Eugene Divinity school fills the pulpit in the local church during the pastor's absence. Ed Looney and family are to leave for Monroe where they will again take up their residence. Mr. Looney has for sometime been en gaged as a salesman, in J. H. Har ris' dry goods establishment. The city of Independence is in darknes3 now. accoidins to the Enterprise. No street lighting of aiy sort is in use, bjcaue of a diaa grpinriit between the city council a id lha Willamette Valley com-pt"V- Mrs. M. VI. S. Bush gave an "at home" Friday to about 50 of her fri nd. Tii" rooms were very pret tily decorated with ivy and fern and light refreshments weie served. The afternoon was a very pleaeant one for all. Mis3 Cecil Rowland gave a very "pjovab'e party at her home Fii day evening to about 15 yo-.mg friends. Games and refreshments, together with asocial time generally made the hours pass very pleasant ly and a good time is reported. Cathey & Haynes. the sign paint ers, wre oV-liged to move theii office Ffir-av, on acsount of th cve in of Ihe bank at thi O. R. & N. dock near which they were located. Idey have muvd to North Vain street, near the Strong saw mill. It is understood thnt Carl Porter, the genial employe in th-) Hammel meat market, has tendered his resignation and will eogagein firm ing operations with his brother-in-law, Joha Whiteaker, on the Whit aker farm near Corvallis. Carl has many friends who wish him euccese. On account of. the high water which resulted Friday and Satur day from the continued downpour of rain, travel from the south was 6hut off, Saturday, as Mary's river was too high to allow of passengers crossing. The Willamette was out of its banks on the East side and wis 30 feet above low water mark Saturday morning. The contest in which Miss Alda .V'etcalf and Miss Anna French participated to secure a free t'ip to the Jamestown Exposition as repre sentee irom Benton county, closed the night of Decern r.er 31st. Miss Metcalf won by a majority of 121, her total number of votes being 335 against Miss French's 214. The winners, one farmei's daughter from each county in the siat will be taken to the Exposition May 1st bv Philip Bates, editor of the Pacific Northwest, for who e papr the young ladies secured f ubscriplions during the contest. Both of the Cjrya lis girls nude a fine sbo- ti.'t and tiid good work, ev.d th most fiiendiv c-Dirit was manifested between them during the rac?. Eugene bids fair to h. ve naved streets w'thin the next year. The City Council has adonted a resolu tion th.-t a total cf 41 blocks be paved as soon as necessary prelim inaries can be arranged. The citv attorney was instructed to prepare the ordinances under which toe pavements will be laid, and the street committee waB instructed t correspond with the city officials of fortlaiid eud otner Northwest cities to ascertain the cost of pavement and the best material to oe used, says a dispatch in the Telegram. The streets to be paved embrace the tutire business district o the city, and Eleventh street is the tuorughfare leading to the uni versity and on which the uoest residences are built. The postoffie people do not attempt to state just when they will move into the new building. Owing to the time re quired in putting the inside finishing touches to any building, and to the further fact of the trouble that has been on for several days with delayed mails, it eeems impossible to say jaet when the change in location will cccur. Earnest Miller is to occupy a position in the new postofEce room, with bis telegraph office, and in addition will operate a news stand. He is noar getting the place in fix to move in. "".saTsartha Watroos ha arrived to re eater 0 1C - -.The city of Philomath baa levied a Bpe -i a! city tax of 12 mills; the city of Albany, 6 mil's and the city of Corvallis, 7 mills." . -' " :'" Soecial road tux levies have been, ap proved by the Benton county court in the following districts, . in the amounts given ; District number 2," 5 mills; num ber, 12 five mills; 13, tea; number 15, four; number 16, two; eighteen, five; 22, seven; 24, three. ' The will of the late John Fisher has been Glad for probate at the clerk's office. The instrument was executed November 13 I9O6, and names Mrs. Lena C. Bay burn as executrix, .to serve without bonds. It states tbat the estimated value of the real property is $6,500, and of the personal property 18000. William Knotta, Richard Kirer and Gas Harding have been named as appraisers. A walk of a couple of blocks almost any morning will convince any thinking person that Newberg ought to pass an ordinance against spitting on the side walks and enforce it to the letter. Think of a man unloading the contents of a catarrhal throat on the walk, not only for every passer-by to be forced to see, but for women to brush their skirts over. "We are aware that the scripture text reads "Let him that is filthy be filthy still," but we suggest that those who insist on fu. filling tUe text should take to the wools. Newberg Graphrc. When the turpentine and alcohol plant, s.ioa to ba built on tho bank of the Willamette opposite the city, begins operations, cheao fuel in St. Johns will disappear. ' Although it does not come from heidquarters, we have heard it said that the new plant has contracted for and will use all the refuse lumbar of the mills, a: d even the sawdust. This means that our people will have to depend on the ranchers bringing ia cord wood from the hills across the river, or else use :oal from the mines ia Wyoming. St. Johns Review. A story of the high water that prevail ed the last of the week, is related about town. According to report two young men, one of whom is said to be named Montgomery, were engaged in cutting wood on Kiger island, and they lived in a "shack" nearby. F'iday night they retired as usual but in the morning the water was a foot deep under the bed having flooded the place during the night. The young men hastily Rrose, put their cook stove up on their table and managed to get some breakfast, after which they clambered to the roof of their shanty and awaited an opportunity to get out. The dav was bitterly cold and they were drenched to the skin, but when a friend remembered them and went in a boa, to their rescue he found the boys almost frozen but whistling bavely as they sat on the rocf. The water had almost reached the eaveat. of the house when they left their uncomfortable perch. O. C. H text an if. PatronizoZKomQ industry Gufslg!e 0fai"s3 Solicited. All Work '.Guaranteed. Will begin Wednesday, January 2, 1907. Offering bargains in every depart ment, and as is our custom we will make this one of the bargain events of the year. Space will not permit to quote prices on every article in the BIG STORE, but will remind you that it is a genuine sale, and everything goes at reduced prices Dry 10c Outing Flannel.... .8c 12c " " , 10c 1 Lot of colored dress goods . . .25c 1 " " " ...35c .1 " $100 " " 00c 54-in Navy and Green homespun 45c 54-in Blue ladies'cloth 4oc loo Silkleen ..10c 12c " 9c Extra heavy mixed shirting, 20o grade 12c The frame of the A. J, Johnson bnild- j ng is now goin up, and the scene ia a j busy one from early morning until late j in the evening. . The cold weather of the j past few days has made outside work ' rather unpleasant, .bat the laboring man has no choicft in matters of this sort. Special school tax levies have been made by the following districts, in the amounts named: Corvallis, Ko. 9, 4 mills; Bellefountain, 23, 10 mills; Mon roe, 25, 1-2 mill ; Fairmount, 34, 10 mills, Summit, 36, 3 1-2 mills; Fairmount, 43, 2 mills ; south Bellefountain, " 50, 2 mills ; Southwest Bellefountaiii; 94, 2 mills. Starr's Bakery has secured the services of Dick Llewellyn, the wonderful bread maker. 89tf Yesterday Prof. P. D. McLouth of OAC sent East two cover designs and 20 illustrations, all bis own work, which are to be nsed ii a new' book that is just coming out TLe book is of a historical character, and the work required must be of the highest class and is very diffi cult to execute. Prof. McLouth will spend next summer in New York City. Ruthyn Turney will accept a limited number of pupils on violin. Inquire at Gazette otlice. 4-tf In Seattle, Saturday, Esther Mitchell was adjudged insane and it was alto ordered that she should not be removed from the state of Washington. Miss Lou Lewis died at the home of her half bister, Mrs. Davis, i 1 Philomath Sunday, after an itlueas of eigh; days with pneumonia. The funeral occurs to day from the residence and interment will be in Newton cemetery. Deceased made her home in Sa'eui but usually spent the summer in Philomath. She was aged about GO years. The second military ball of the present college year is to be held in the armory Friday evening. The "Peerless Orches tra" of Salem ia to furnish music, and a good time is assured all who attend. T. A. Jones was an Albany visitor the last of the week. Mrs. W. H. Kaupisch was the guest of Albany friends Saturday. Lamence Rodgers a popular student at OAC, was sum mo id to his home in Astoria, Sunday, by a telegram anuounc jngthat his mother had suffered a stroke of paralysis and was verj low. Citv water rent for January is payable by the 10th, at office in the City Hall. L Notice. The law requires that anyone owning or harboring a dog within the corporate limits of the'City of Corvallis, shall, ou or before the first day of January, of each year, pay into the city treasury the sum of one dollar for each male and two dollars for each' female dog so owned If the tax is not, paid by the ticaeabove stated the law makes it incumbent upon the Chief of Police to collect the same. The books are now, in. my hands and if be tax is not paid at once I shalf proceed to collect it according to law. . 5-8 W. G. Lane. Chief of Police. ' Chaa. Blake tea. Goods 20 Yards of comlus. aiiUiii bo f w sua i OREGON. IS' - " " jg Extra SpeciaB on 23 1? ON ALL CHRISTMAS GOODS 1 WATCH AND WAIT FOR KLINE'S GREAT ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE W7e Established 1354. F MWD In addition to a large and complete stock of Drugs and Medicines we have a fine assortment of holiday goods, such as Choice Perfumes, Toilet Articles, Fine Stationery, Books, Musical Instru ments and Pyrograph Outfits. We also have the famous Edison Phonograph, the wonder of the age, with complete line of records, nothing better for a holiday gift. ) J A call at our . store will afford you ; I pleasure and profit. Prompt attention to mail orders. Men aid Boys Clot $10.00 Mens Suits reduced to ' 12.50 4 " " 15.00 " " " " 16 50 " " " 20.00 " " " " 250 Boys " " " 3.00 " " " 3 50 " " " 4.50 " " " " Youths clothing is also included Calico $1. QO Linen, Napkins 3 Cent Off THE TIME WHEN EVERYBODY CAN SAVE MONEY AT THE PEOPLE'S STORE fjiMwmw!iiim.'t'iw Ccrvallis, Oregca. $ 7.95 10.00 12.00 13.20 16.00 , 1.95 2.25 2 95 3.45 in tbis sale. 4