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.
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