Leading
Corvdllis
Newspaper.
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Advertising
Medium.
Vol.
Corvallis, Benton Counts', Oregon, Friday. July 13. lOOG.
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THE GANG AT WORK.
Do Wholesale Business in Grain
Sacks Caution to Purchasers
T i- t?anr f voting toughs of
whi h ment i has been made in
thes- ouumn-. ircently, is still at
larg- and .- to ihe sort of capers
that rniyht b expected from such
an outfit.
A lnd office business has been
done bv tb e lads of late in the
sale f grai j. sack, which they
have stolen about town and dis
posed ot a1 XA cents each
Amone. thosr who have suffered
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from these dr predations are Dick
Tom, from whom 50 sacks have
been stolen: Heurv Stone who
lost about the same number, and
Jesse Moses who has been robbed
,, at all that the young imps could
find. As many as 100 sacks were
sold by the boys at one time,
Along with these thefts an axe
was stolen at the Moses . home a
few days ago, and a swing
was cut down and the board
stolen, the latter being a patent
contrivance ot uncommonly con
venient design. ;
Again the question arises
Whose boys are they? Are they
yours, kind reader? If vour sons
are "around town" from morning
until night, chumming with as
sociates of their own choosing,
how do you know that these are
not your sons? The quickest and
best way to settle the question is
to keep your boys busy at home.
or to know positively how their
time is spent. Police are less
charitable than parents, and the
performances of these young
theives are not such as to create
a kindly sentiment in their favor
when once- they are caught, as
they certainly will be in time."
Cameron in It
' J. M. Cameron, formerly of
Corvallis, but now of Portland,
has become a member of The
Fidelity Land Company, of the
metropolis. It is the intention
01 tne members ot tnis company
to send a man all through the
East in the interest of Oregon.
The projectors of this great
scheme have the handling of vast
properties in Portland and other
sections of the state and desire
all who have real estate either in
Portland or other sections to con
fer with them. All Benton
county people who have property
here or in Portland are requested
to confer with Amy Cameron, ot
Corvallis, who will lose no time
in communicating with members
of the company in Portland.
He Favors Improvements.
would at once be impressed with
the thrift and general progressive
air of our cily.
Along with "clean-up" plans,
let citizens awaken to some of
these., things than can and
should be remedied, and by
working together, each on his
own property, a great and splen
did improvement will be made
in Corvallis. E.
GREETINGS.
To
the Citizens of Corvallis and
Benton County.
Out For the Prizes.
1 nere are two contestants a
field in Benton county for the free
trip to the Jamestown Exposition
in May, 1007. The local workers
are Miss Greta Harrington and
Miss Anna French, and to one or
the other will probably fall the
honor of the visit to the East.
As outlined briefly in the Gazette
recently,' the plan is for the editor
of the Pacific Northwest to give
a free trip to Tamestown to 7,
voung women, farmers' daughters,
one from each county in Oregon,
The prize goes of course, to the
girl sending in the largest num
ber of subscriptions to the Pacific
Northwest, the price of which is
;o cents per year, in -addition
to this, a check for $5 is to be
iven each ' week to the contest
ant sending in the largest list of
subscribers that week.
The Citizens' league of Benton
is to aid the Benton county girls
in everv wav possible, for it is
desirable that Corvallis secure a
representative in this big, free
trip, which is, after all, an adver
tising scheme of great scope and
magnitude.
ine successful party, accom
panied by the Northwest editor,
will leave Portland May 1 '07
for Tamestown. all expenses of
the trip to be borne by the latter.
The estimated expense of the
undertaking is $ip,p.oo.7-'-i .. .
A Portland Experience.'
While on the subjectof abolish
ing the old china houses that are
a disgrace to the city, a word
may be added in regard to the un
sightly, ram shackle old sheds
that are tacked onto numerous
stores and other business places
about town, and also to certain
rakish looking bill boards that
disfigure the landscape here and
there.
These sheds, some of them at
least, are used as covers for all
manner and kind of trash, includ-j
ing old barrels, , boxes, tin
cans, bottles, and other rubbish
that might easily be burned and
thus put out of the way. A, view
canbe caught ot conditions behind
the scenes, in passing along cer
tain streets.
The bill boards, and sheds or
shacks on which bills are pasted,
give the town a cheap, brazen,
uncivilized appearance that is cer
tainly not desirable and that
could be over come by very little
effort on the part of property own
ers. Another improvement that has
been mentioned by strangers as
needed in Covvallis, is a cleaning
up and beautifying of the river
front. With the natural advan
tages at hand, and with such
scenery as nature has given, it
would be no great task to so
beautify the river front here that
Yisiton alighting front steamers
Jesse Hoses had : business in
Portland, Tuesday, and went
down and back the same day.
While conducting his business in
a way thoroughly satisfactory to
himself, Mr. Moses had an ex
perience that was not to his lik
ing and which he will long re
member. V
It seems Mr. Moses decided
that he would indulge in a shave
and hied himself to a barber
shop. In getting himself ready
for the chair he decided to leave
a valuable stickpin in his cravat.
There were four or five tonsonal
artists in the shop at the time
and all were idle except the man
who a tended, Mr. Moses. When
shaved the latter discovered thai
his pin had been removed from
his tie during the time he was in
the chair.
When Mr. Moses called the
attention of the boss ot the shop
to the fact that the pin was miss
ing he was shown neither cour
tesy nor respect. Our townsman
being insistent regarding his loss,
he was the subject ot much abu
sive treatment and insultingly
defied in the matter. Finally,
Mr. Moses went to po'ice head
quarters and was accompanied
back to the shop by an officer,
but aside from; the satisfac
tion of making the barber outfit
change their tone he profited not.
The pin was a valuable one
and was presented Mr. Moses
by a cousin who resides in the
South. On account of it having
been a present he valued it high
ly . It is doubtful if he ever sees
it again.
J. T. Smith, proprietor of the
Commercial restaurant, has been a
Portland visitor this week.
An epidemic of sore throat has
been going the rounds in Corval
lis the past week, among the vic
tims being Miss Joann McClennan,
Mrs. Arnold King, Miss Nelle Mar
vin and Mr. Mosier. The ailment
is said to be quite general both at
Corvallis and Philomath, and is ac
companied by headache and fever,
causing the victim to think he has
genuine "grippe." .. .. .
Coming as I do from a city
where debauchery and crime
exist in' spite of all tne efforts
put forth by the churches and
other elevating institutions, to
your quiet little college town,
needing but one policeman, and
be may safely take a nap at any
time, I naturally wish to know
the why? But when I recall the
fact that the citizens of Benton
jouaty two years ago banished
the drinking saloon from their
borders the condition needs no
further explanation. When told
that the public debt is now be
ing diminished at the annual
rate of $2000 over and above
current expenses, no difficulty is
experienced in answering the
common bluff of the saloon peo
ple and their friends, viz. "Ban
ish the saloon and your town
will ' soon become insol
vent!" Bah! The time of the
patent of that scarecrow is out
and it cannot be renewed. The
merchants of wholesome and
legitimate goods have now no
difficulty in collecting their bills
for merchandise sold to purchas
ers who in former years . post
poned payments indefinitely, and
gave their earnings to the saloen
keeper. The thousands that
used to go' into the pockets of the
salesmen ot "booze" now goes
for shoes and hats and suits and
bonnets and dresses; and refined
sugar and surloin steaka nd super
fine flour, etc.. etc. And the
merchants smile, and the wives
smile, and children laugh and
play with papa when he comes
home sober and in his right
mind. The saloon-keeper has
got into some reputable business
in which he can .maintain him
self and. family .without robbing
his Jellowmen. And has become
a respectible citizen whom his
neighbors no longer shun. He
is thankful now vthat his neigh
bors laid hold of him and pulled
him out of the mire of filth and
rum. Me knew it before, but
now he is ready to admit that the
drink business is robbery and a
crime against man. Benton
county, with her seven companion
"dry" counties in Oregon, is now
referred to as an example of sob
riety and prosperity; and Corval
lis as a sife place for" the boys
and girls to come and receive
their advanced education at the
State College. But she and her
seven companions will not long
enjoy the pre-eminence in these
respects. These counties are an
object, lesson to the rest of the
state. Very soon the remainder
ot Oregon will fall in line and
the criminal drink traffic be driv
en into oblivion. Nov, let me
call especial attention to another
and very essentially important
matter. Sobriety is a great ad
vantage to start with, but a stupid
thing to stop with. . We want
more than that. We want agri
cultural development, commer
cial enlargement, educational
facilities increased. Local manu
facture must be encouraged.
Enterprise and increased capital
will bring all this. Dare we stop
there? Yes, if man is an intel
lectual animal; no, if man is a
moral being. We have merged
too far out of heathen darkness to
admit the former. We agree on
the latter proposition, viz., Man
isa moral being. His moral
nature is not only susceptible of
development, but it is impossible
for him to stand morally still.
He is bound to slide down or
climb up. The God who made
him wants him to climb up and
has has furnished him with the
facilities for doing so, viz., the
Bible and a weekly Sabbath as a
time for its study. Some people
who think they are intelligent
deny this statement. But they
are egotists always and fre
quently immoral in their live.
It is unprofitable to argue with
them The proposition I make
is reasonable and satisfactorily.
demonstrable. Illustrations of
its truth are very numerous
These being facts, it logically
follows that it is essential to the
symmetrical development ot the
whole man that he must be en
couraged in the study of the Bible
and protected in using the day
especially set apart for that pur
pose. The christian world agrees
to use tor. that purpose the week
ly memorial day ot the resurrec
tion of the World's Redeemer,
which is seven times called "Sab
bath" in the Greek New Testa
ment and once "Lord's Day,"
but never "first day of the week."
Now, while it is not the province
ot the state to require its eccles
iastic observance, it is the duty
or civil government to protect
the church in teaching the people
its religious observance; and to
prevent its enemies from dishon
oring it.
This in the interest of the Drb-
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duction of the highest type cf
good citizenship. Therefore, it
is within the province of civil
government to enact laws and
enforce them, prohibiting ordi
nary labor and business, public
amusements, noisy recreations
and secular exhibitions on the
Lord's Day. " -
A fair interpretation of the j
laws of Oregon and Washington !
(with one exception) covers the !
case as herein described. ' The
exception referred to is the protec- j
tion given by the law of -Oregon
to the "Sunday theatre," the re
peal of which exception will be
sought in the near' future.
J. H. Leiper,
Field Secrerary Sabbath Associa
tion. P,. S. I think I heard a
"blind pig" grunt on one of
your business streets. Wake up,
cop.
Tell your prosecuting attorney
and sheriff to put a stop to "San-
"Sunday ball
under the
head of ; 'Sunday amusements"
which the law forbids. Tell the
superintendent of the Corvallfs
& Eastern that .''Sunday excur
sions" are demoralizing to any
community and belittleing to the
management of railroad corpora
tions.
Tell your pastors who happen
to be at the seashore on the
Lord's Day that Christ preached
to the seashore crowds and con
verted many of them and spent
no time in gathering shells on
the Sabbath.
What about the "original
package" business at the ex-
You're Sure to Crow
Over iny set of Shirt Waists Sets like those
now on sale at this store.
Shirt Waist Sets
for Jnly are jnst as good for Augnst or Septem
ber, or any other month, if hnnirht. tra if
you wnnt what's exquisite, at a modest price,
buy a set. We guarantee they're the greatest
value for the sum invested that can be had.
See them and buy a set.
Albert J. Metzger
WATCHMAKER .
Occidental Building, - - - CorvftUis
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Manufactured by
The Vegetable Compound Company
Corvallis, Oregon- 9t
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games: ' ' They come
From the Stock
Now on Hand
FiiBti: come, firpt fervfd.
We only have a few at thia
price, it you want a, high-
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chance. H Order today .
Franklin Iron Works CORVALLIS, OR.
$100 is m n wm Cost j
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cunning
press office? That's a
trick, surely. But wait a bit. A
Dili before Congress, successor to
the Hepburn-Dolliver bill, will
stop all that ere long. The re
storation of the saloon would not
be any remedy for that smart
trick. T. H. L,.
Prosperity For Nye Creek.
This will be the banner year
in tne History 01 JNewpoit and
Nye Creek, according to the
reports that continue to come
from that point. A recent dis
patch from there has something
to say of the situation, as follows:
The center of population at
this seaside resort is shifting from
Newport to Nye Creek. Very
little building or improvements
are going on at Newport, with
the exception of the establish
ment of a bank. A large num
ber of new residences have gone
up at Nye Creek the past yeai
and some very handsome ones.
Those who have not visi'ed
this popular resort tor a year wil1
be surprised to see the transfor
mation when they arrive thu
year. Nye Cieek now presents
the appearance of a flourishing,
ambitions town, with prospects
ahead. There are now on the
Nye Creek side of the Cape, 1200
to 1500 people. Nearly all 1 the
cottages and residences are occu
pied or spoken for. The hotels
at both Newport and Nye : Creek
have a eood run. but are not
over crowded yet, . t-
A Specialty
We are making a specialty in the form of the latest and most
up-to-date eye glass mounting, ever offered to the public.
This eye glass mounting is "The Heard" guaranteed to stay on
where others absolutely fail. " -
If you care to investigate call at my store any time.J
E. W. S. PRATT, Jeweler and Optician.
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We Carry the Famous Bristol Fishing Rod
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THE FARMER
Rates offered by us are $1.00 per year where the farmer
uses his own telephone (farmers not having telephones can
purchase from us at $8.50 each) or $5.00 per year where we
furnish the telephone.
You can be connected with 200,000 Local and Long Dis-.
tance telephones.
Further information at any of our offices.
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