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About Corvallis gazette. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1907)
LOCAL AMD FERS0M4L Misa. Lucky ol Fall City arrived this week: to enter OAU a a stuant Miss Ella Johnson, the milliner, ia the guest for a week of relatives in Albany. Miss Marie Danneman has been clerking in the Graham & Welis drag store this week. Mrs. Homer Lilly of Wrenn has been the guest this week of Corral lis relatives. Mrs. Amelia Schubert - arrived home Tuesday from a visit with relatives at Monroe. Mrs. C. B. Starr and daughters Misses Svlva and Mamie, bave returned from a week's vist in Port land. Mr. and Mrs. P. A. M osier moved Monday into the Miller house on third street. John Sutherland arrived home this week from Portland where he has been for the past few weeks Mrs. Susan Starr of this city is quite ill at the home of relatives at LSellefountaiB, and it 18 feared she has pneumonia. Miss Sophia Hartley is seriously ill with appendicitis, at tbs home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hartley, in this city. Mrs. W. VV. Ireland and Miss Bessie Ireland have been visiting relatives and friends in Independ ence this week. ueorsrn Henme, or inia city, is no it in California on a vist to his son, Raymond, who is engage 1 in operating a pharmacy at San Jose Mr. and Mrs. J. R. McCoy of Oakesdale, Wash., left Tuesday for San Francisco, after month s visit with G. G. Newton and family in Benton county. From 'Frisco Mr McCoy and family go to Arizona for a visit beforj returning home. The Washington installed offic rs at their ball .Monday nigbt, as f al lows: P. P., VV. H. Dilley: pres Norton Adams; vice, Miss Effie Kiger: chap., W. Newton: esc.jrt, lie King; ass't escort, Bert Sanger; sentinel O. O. oenger; guard, George Whiteside; musician, Miss Libbie Rice. Mr. and Mrs. John Lenger' of this city are in receipt of a letter from their daughter, Mrs. Fred Hall of Stockton California, inform ing them that her husband is in very poor health, being scarcely able to be about now, but that she has employment and is doing well. Both are former Corvallis young people. The foothills west of Corvallis are white with snow, the flood of .last week Las been fallowed by a hard freeze this week, and while the thermometer has hung around the 26 to 30 above zero notch and the sky has been cloudless, it has never theless been cold enough to cause no end of discussion among local residents and "Is it cold enough for you?" is literally "the question of ths .lay." A list of very uiful statistics ou the San Francisco fire has j ist been ifisu-'d. This list gives the ares burned in square miles, acres and otherwise, cuy blocks burned, bui d ings destroyed, value of buildings buiiied, and vairous other informa tion of value. Thene statistics have b-en compiled and copyrighted ba T. E. Wils.in, a foroinr Corvailii buy, who is well remembered bv many local residents. O. J. Blackledge purchased 120 Hcres of timber land near Belle fountain, three vears ag, for $520 and een at t!it price bis venture w.-.s "smiled" at by osrtaia paieons in thut locality. Wednes day Mr. Blackledge received an ofivr fr thes-iius property of If 1,500 cash, which proves the truth of the old saying that "he laughs best who laughs last." "The Belle of Jipan"gievn at tb Corvailis opera house Tuesday night, wis lefreshingly "new" iu phtand characters, dealing as it does ith Japanese life and customs, nnd the performance met with in stant favor from the good audience present. Several very clever per formers are in th -cast,' besides which a first clas3 Japanese juggler gwe a splendid exhibition of skill and there were otner speciainte The costuros were very attrac'.ive and the scenic effects rood, all com bining to make the production de cidingly worth while. Main street ia a busy looking place these days, for everywhere there is the no Be of hammer and saw as car7nters come and go about their work . Besides the new, A. J. Johnson building and the new postfliae, work is in progress on the front of the room formerly occupied by Hankie & Davis, where J. M. Nolan & San ate to establish a ladies' and child rens' furnishing goods store, and farther down the street improvements are to begin at once on the rom that will soon be occupied by tha Bell telephone company. J. L. Underwood has accepted a position as bookkeeper for E. W. Strong at the saw mill. bSt3. Charles Butler returned to her home in Portland the first oi this week, after a visit with rela tives in this city. John Foley of Saiem returns to his home tomorrow, after a visit at the home of Misses Ella and Thia Johnson in this city. Claud Starr has purchased the residence property of Al Stevenson, just west of the Dr. Pernot home. Possession is to be given the 22d of February. . Sam Moore moved his new porta ble saw mill to bis place west of Corvallis Tuesday, where he Is to engage in the lumber business. ' ' Harold Rumbaugb. an old OAC student, came from his home near Albany the first of this week to at- tnd the farmers' short course at OAC. which began Tuerday. Misses Lela and Ida McBee and their brother George, who are at tending school in this city, moved this veek into the Mrs. Prudence Chipman cottage on Fourth street. William Schmidt, the wellknown farmer of Granger, has purchased a half interest in the Starr baker and is to move to Corvallis at once to take his place in the store. Mr. Schmidt and family have lented the Mrs. Susan Starr residence on Eighth street. E. K. Abraham arrived the first of this week from Bow, Wash., for week's visit with his daughter, Mrs. Al Stevenson. Mr. Abraham ntends to locate either in Forest Grove or Corvallis, and is in this city for the purpose of looking over the ground oefore deciding on which place he will make his home. Mrs. J. Mason arrived home Wednes day from Siletz, where eh9 went to visit her mother, Mrs. S. A. Kisor, who was recently stricken with paralysis. Mrs. Kisor ia not im Droved. Owing to the very bai conditioa of the toads and to the fact that the high wind last week blew down many trees that now obstruct the hiirhwav, Mrs. Mason had to cross tile Alaea mountain on horse back, the trip being one that would tire strong man. The new Hotel Prineville, which has been in process of construction for more than a year, was pronounc ed complete Sundav. Saturday evening the transfer from the old to the new bunding was quietly made, and the guests enioyed breakS' herein Sunday morning. The new structure is one for Prfaeville and Crook county to te proud of. Built cf stone and two stories in height, t is supplied with every modern convenience -Prineville R view. Joseph Edwards of Bellefountain suffe ed a heavy loss from the recent high water. He had 208 head of sheep in a pasture near his me and as the water began to ise he deo'ded to bring the flock to the barn yard, whre the ground as high and had never been fuo- nerged during hij.U witer. tr.u the unexpected is what occurs, and the next morning Mr.. Edward? found that 200 of his sheep er- Irowned and only eight remain of the fine fl ics. The lo?s is decided heavy and Mr. Edwards natur- ily feels pretty ''blue" over the iccurreiice. There was a three-horse runaway a this Ctv Aioadav atterno n that caused more excitement thun a raes band on dress pirade. I'-was the big mill .team of th ee horses, and the animals ran from th mill rivwr street west pr?st the Zierolf residence and on into Job's addition. o front of the Cbnrles Heckart onie the Independent telephone men were workiti ,and one ot tnese ran in front of the runaways and ith a board succeeded in beating them over their hepds uniil a bait ts made. The driver ciuag to th rear endgate of the wagon from tart to finish of the race but could ot succeed in climbirg into the vehicle to se:z3 the reins. Aside from breakages, to the harness the au-age was trifling. There was a meeting Tuesday af'.erni'ou of the Lidie6' Aid Society of the M. E. church, at which tiuie ffisera for the year wer elected as follows: President Mrs. Minor Swick; vice, Mrs. Ada Farmer: eec'y Mrs. S. W. Holmes; treasurer, Mrs. A. C. White; executive committee, Mrs. George W. Saiita, chairman, Mrs. William Bogue and Mrs. J. B. Goodman. After the business meet ing Mrs. Ada Farmer, tha retiring president, invited the company to the basement of the church where she'had prepared delicious luncheon as a surprise. Misses Mabel Farmer and Inez Johnson served, and there was a season of feasting and merry making. Mrs Farmer has served two terms as president of the society beir.g highly - popular with her co laborers by whom she was urged to remain in office, but for various rearons she was unable to carry on the woik and her resignation was reluctantly accepted. MUSH DISCUSSION CREATED, la Esther : Mitchell Case What Some People Think. , "If Esther Mitchell is insane now and is so adjudged , and sen tenced to the Washington asylum it does not signify that she will remain there for any lengto of time. She may improve in a few months and be released, and what will be the next chapter in the affair?" These were the . questions and comments of a Corvallis man, in discussing the case of .Esther Mitchell, this week. In fact, the case has aroused much comment here, where the young woman is so well known, and the fact ot her being sect to the asylum while causing no sur prise does bring forth an occasion al querry as to the probable length of time she will be confined in such an institution. Speaking of the case, Monday's Capital Journal says: Esther Mitchell, the Oregon girl now in the King county iail, charged with murder in the first degree for the killing of her bro ther, George Mitchell, last July, will never be tried for the crime. but wi 1 probably end her days in a Washington state asylum. She may not be deported to another state, Four justices of the su preme court of the state have de cided that the act of lunacy com mission called by Superior Judge A.. VV. r rater was legal when it pronounced the Mitchell girl and her companion in crime, Mrs Maud-Hurt-Creffield, insane, Mrs. Creffield is dead, presum ably by her own hand, and under tie ruling of the supreme court, Esther Mitchell will spend the rest of her life at Stellacoom. Crow, Dunbar, Hadley and Rudkin are the justice who brought in the majority report dnd while sustaining .Judge Fra er ia calling the lunacy com mission,' they declare that Esther Mitchell may not be sent to Ore gon, holding that the state under which this order was made is in valid, for the reason that it can not be legally enforced. Starr's Bakery has secured the services of Dick, Llewellyn, t e wonderful bread maker. . 8 f Market Report. Esras per dozen - 35c. Bittter, creamery per roll 60c. ' countrv per lb. - 25c. potatoes, per bushel - 50c. Spring chickens, live - - 9c. Hogs, dressed - - - - 7 JSC Veal, ' - - 7c. Wheat 08c. s - 30 32c. ( Miss Grace Watkins is now em ploved as saleslady for 3. M. Nolan & Son. ... v. . ,- ... Frank Wocock of Tygh Valley visited Corvallis friends the first of this week. ';.-.:. -. V Pianos and Organs New and second hand for., sale and rent. R.N. White. Phone 405. 5-7 M. B. Huntly, who was a lead ing baker in, Eugene for 15 years, is now baaing for small & Son in this city. Everything fresh every evening. ; 6-1 4 Lost: Saturday" night, on Sixth street, . between Odd Fellows' hall and the John Wood residence, nair goldbowed glasses in case, with handkerchief around case. Please leave at Gazette. 6 Lost, Monday, between Plymouth church and Corvallis public school a ladies purse, with name "Mamie Hall" burned on one aide. Finder leave at Gazette office and receive reward. " 6 Mrs. O. V. Hurt expects to leave to morrow for a visit with her son and daughter, Frank and Mae Hurt, in Seat tlet A dispatch from TJ. of O. in Wednes day's Telegram says: On January 16 and I7 the examinations for the Rhodes scholarship will be held at the university . Until yesterday only live applications had been received by President Camp bell, who is chairman of the scholarship committee for Oregon. Four are from the University of Oregoa and one from Willamette University. They Installed Officers. eat';0nr-;iaA -25W ON ALL CHRISTMAS GOODS The W. R. C. and G. A. R members had installation of officers and a general social time at their hall on the evening of January 5th. There was no special pro gram, but Mrs. Ada Farmer and Mrs. Charles Peterson gave a vocal duet that was very much appreciated bv all. - The W. R. C. officers installed for the year are: President, Mrs Agnes Young; sr. vice, Mrs. Bul lis; Jr. vice, Mrs. Ada Farmer, chaplin, Mrs. Wood; conductor Mrs. A. E Wilkins; guard, Mrs Charles Peterson; ass't guard, Mrs. George; treas., Mrs. Fannie Orenjsecy, Mrs. Emily Henkle; patriotic instructor, Mrs. O. J. Blackledge; musician, Mrs. S. W. Holms; press correspondent, Mrs. Julia du Moulin; color barers, Mrs. Sam Kerr, Mrs. Ed Felton, Mrs. Mike Hubler, Mrs. Abhie Stone. The retiring president, Mrs. G. W. Robinson, was presented with a silver berry spoon as a token of the esteem in which she is heln by her- co-workers. Short ad ireses were made by Commau er S. H. Horton and retirng ''ommander W G. Lane. A movement is on foot to raise funds with which to putchase a monument inhonor of the soldier dead buried in Crystal Lke cemetery. Twenty-nine Corvallis old soldiers have pledged $10 each, and S. L. Kline has kind ly donated a like amount. WATCH AND WAIT FOR KLINE'S GREAT ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE THE TIME WHEN EVERYBODY CAN SAVE MONEY AT THE PEOPLE'S STORE Hhtablislied 1354. Corvallis, Oregon. 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 Edisou Phonograph, the wonder of the age, with complete line of records, nothing better for a holiday gift. A call at our store will afford you pleasure and profit. Prompt attention to mail orders. 1 I ' I 1 13 Em 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 yp,nv Stmpp wi'll nnf nprmit to mintft nrioes on every article in the ' BIGf It STORE, but will remind you that it is a genuine sale, and everything goes reduced prices " at Dry Goods fOc Outing Flannel...... 12c " " 1 Lot of colored dress goods : . 2 t U , . 44 i " $ioo " '.'.'.'.-I C- ."!!!! 54-in Navy and Green homespun.. .. .45c 54-in Blue ladies cloth. 45c 15o Silkleen ... 10c 12c ...... ..... 9c Extra heavy mixed shirting, 20c grade 1 2c ....81c ....10c .:.25c ,...3?c ....60c ig Mens Suits reduced to 7.95 4 4 .4 .4 . 10.00 Cl. (4 $10.00 12.50 " ,15.00 " 16 50 ' 20.00 2.50 Boys " " " - 3.00 " " " " 3 50 : " " " ... 4.50 " " " " .'. Youths clothing is also included in this sale. 12.00 13.20 16.00 1.95 2.25 2.95 3.45 20 Yards of Goad Calico $1. OO Extra Special on Table Linen, Napkins if V 1 X 11
