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About Corvallis gazette. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1907)
4 4 Leading Corvallis Newspaper. Best 'Advertising Medium. VOL.XL1V. "-CtoRVAixis, Benton Counts, Oregon, Tuesday. January 22. 190T. NO. r 7 Investigation shows that many gioi watches are spoiled by tampering. iJo mutter how litte you suppose is the in ilir yours better Havo US rttpalr it. A whoie lot of damage can b d.me by those who are Dot acquainted iih the delicate mechanism. We know watches and can repair them as they should be Bring us yours if 11 doesn't go just rignt. Albert J. Metzger WATCHMAKER Occidental Building, - Corvallis f En For the correct thing in the jewelry line. We have a fine of jewelry and silverware that is astonishing in its grace and beauty, and magnificent in its size and completeness. Engraving nicely done in the latest ribbon script styles. Repairing that is guaranteed and prices that are in keeping with the class of work done. E. W, S. PRATT, Jawsle and Optician O. Hfomtnnd. CORVALUS STEAM LAUNDRY. Pa iron IzeTJiom o Industry 'Oil dm Ordora SolloMmd. Alt Work Bumrmntmmd. REMEMBER We handle line Reed Rockers - AT 0. J. RL ACKLEDGE'S Furniture Store Corvallis - 25 Brands of BREAKFAST FOODS We Carry BUT YOU WANT TO TRY THE LATEST TOASTED CORN FLAKES This food is put up in one pound packages and sold for 15 sents " a package at HODES GROCERY Brina vpur Job Work to the Gazette Office. Why Shen'.l your baby snffir? When bo is restless and fretful don't experiment with him and use anv old thins your neighbor recommends. Buy a bottle of White's Cream Vermifuge greatest known worm medicine and cure for all cbildrens dis eases. Itia mild in its action, builds up the system, makes thin puny babies fat, "My baby was thin and aicklv, could not retain its food and cried all night. I neea one Bottle of White' Cream Vermi fuge and in a few daya baby waa laugh, ing happy and wall. Sold by Graham A Wertkasa. SPENCER'S Hair Invsgorator And Dandruff Eradleator It. lailrfcstewr - T BMSBJUCMX' i. , ''Si.1 S 1J1S.TH. Price, - Fifty Cents Manufactured by The Vegetable Compound Company Contains, Oregon 9t Pianos' and O l!au Net" and second hand tor i?8l aDd rent R. N. White; Phone 405. 105-6-7 CORVALLIS. OREGON. J ap-a-lac. A new - - - Oregon 25 WHEN YOU BUY AN ARTICLE It pays to buy a good one the fa mous Packard Shoe, $3.50. $4.00 and $3.00 The John B. Stetson Hat, $4.00 and $3.00. Sold by A. Km RUSS ; 1 2 s I i .1 9 5 ' " i , S B. fee.-.. 9 2 ! "" I s JOHNSON BILL Benton's Senator Introdues Bui on Roads. The following bill as drafted by Senator A J. Johnson, of this county, appeared in the Tele gram of January 18. John W- Kelly gave it the following clear ana concise write-up, snowiug plainly that Mr, Johnson is using his best efforts iu a worthy cause: Legislation for good roads will materialize next week when the bouse and senate convenes. Sen ator Johnson ot Benton, has pre pared a bill to provide for the permanent improvement of main highways and the extension ot state and county aid. , This bill will be introduced in the house first, since it carries an appropria tion. The Johnson bill is in line with similar state aid laws exist ing elsewhere, embodying their best features. Its object is to eventually equip Oregon with much needed highways without throwing all the burden ot ex pense upon the people who live along the road. By its provis ions the Johnson good roads bill has the state defray one-third of the expense, the county one- tii:dand the people benefitted bv the improvement the remain ine third. Scattering the cost in this manner is expected to en courage road building and all roads so constructed will be built as part of a system em bracing all counties. Several offices are created by the measure to carry out its pro visions. These offices are a State Highway Commission and a Road Engineer. The State Highway Commission is to con sist of three members who are to come irom the Eastern, western and southern portion of the slate aed will serve, respectively, one, two, and three years. They are to be selected by the Govern or, Secretary of State and treas urer. The salary of the Road Engineer is to be $1800 a year, together with his actual traveling expenses, while performing his duties outside of the state capi tal. The road engineer is to be a civil engineer ana a practical road builder. When people living along a main highway wish it improved under the Johnson law, they must present to the county court a petition containing the signa tures of a majority of resident j owners, asking that it be improv ed. The petition shall designate trie beginning, intermediate points and terminal of such im provement as nearly as possible. The county . court is to inspect the road and if tney find it ot sufficient benefit to be termed a main highway, they shall pass a resolution that public demands require the improvement. This resolution is to be , sent to tne State Road Commission. The commission shall then decide whether they consider the pro posed improvement needed. Upon the approval of the com mission, the road engineer will map the proposed improvement, specify the kind of improvement, taking into consideration the cli mate, soil and material to be had in tne vicinity. Such improve ments are not to be less than eight feet nor more than 17 feet wide, the exact width to be de termined after consultation with the county court. If the counts court again recommends the im provement, tne stater road com mission shall be notified. The state road engineer next adver tises fir bids and supervises thi coEstruction of the highway. When the improvement ha r;een determined upon, the coun ty court is to appoint viewer and appraisers and assess th value of the benefits to all land within two miles on either sid and one mile beyond the termt ons ot the improvement. Th total valuation of benefits shall be one-third of the improvement The county treasurer shall issue nontaxable certificates, . which ! shall certity the sum assessed i against each tract ot land,., and the sum is to be paid, in six -equal installments. The property owner mav take six years to pay tbese certtucates, or the enure amount may be paid at one time. The certificates are to draw 6 per cent interest. Road improvements under the Johnson law are to be taken up in tne oraer in wnicn they are tiled. It is provided, however, that state aid will not be extend ed to exceed the sum of $20,000 to any one county until all the other counties have had a reason able chance to make application for state aid. To prevent run ning up gigantic bills against the state, the measure provides fur ther, that the total amount ex pended by the state under the provisions of the act, including t!ie salary and expenses of the road engineer and the commis sion, shall not exceed in any one year an amount equal to one-half of one mill assessed against all taxable propertv of the state. Be ginning with the levy of 1908, tne proper state authorities are authorized to include this tax along with other state taxes. If they deem it xpedient, the road engineer and the state high way commission can purcnase rock quarries at convenient places throughout the stated when such ar found to be needed, the convenience of shipping facilities must always be taken into con sideration. Convict labor may be employed,' to work in these quarries. One of the missions of .the Johuson bill is to have the offi cers created by it compile statis tics on road work in Oregon ; the number of miles improved, the best material to be used with re spect to localities, and all infor mation which will be of assist ance in giving Oregon first-class highways. No More Typhoid. The typhoid fever epidemic will no be likely to break out in Eugene again if the people will be careful, in fol lowing the directions of the Lane county Medical society which, at a meeting a few days ago, passed the following reso lutions ; Resolved, that in view of the fact that a great many of the wells of the city be ing contaminated and that an influx of river water having been introduced into the mains of the water system it is the sense of this meeting that all water use e for domestic purposes should be thoroughly boiled before using. Another important resolution was this : Resolved, that it is the sense of this society that the city water used in the city of Eugene should be examined each week by com re tent authority and that the report of said examination should be published each week, and that a copy of thiB resolution be sent to hem ayor and alse to the water com' pany. . Another rasolution was to the effect that the council should provide for the appointment of a permanent water com mission, whose duty it shall be to act in the matter of secu-inz pure water. Prof. Sweetser of the University of Oregon made a very interesting talk to the society and stated that analyses of the water used La Eugene were being made in his departmeat nd -that it was his purpose to continue this work, He stated further that some of the advanced students who were making these analy sea, warn meeting with opposition from owners of wells, wh refused to allow the n to take 3a nples of water from their wells, lor the reason tnat they thought these it 1 lent wer in laU with the water company and wanted to condemn the water so as to make them use the city water. Box Social. On Saturday night, January 25. '07 he M. W. A. Lodge will give a box so :ial at the Odd Fellows Hall in Corval us. Bring your best juris and wives indwell filled boxes and have a good lime. By Order oi Committee. 9-I0 The "tWi.fccl " club pave dancing party at Raymond's hkll Saturdav evenii: p. Music wa fur nibad by Prof. MoReyno d'a or cheatra. IN PORTLAND. No Fire Protection No Fuel No Prospect of Relief. TJnltss the coal famine is soon broken the fireboat Gaortje H. Williams will ba forced out of commission, leaving the water front without fire protection. Chief Campbell said this morn ing that the outlook was discour aging, as the supply of coal in this city, such as is used by the fireboat, was nearly exhausted. The situation regarding the scarcity of coke and sawdust used in the furnaces for heating the department houses and keeping up steam in the engines, is noi improved. No coke is to be had in the city, and the snpply ot sawdust is running low, because s many of the mills have closed down during the cold snap. Unless the weather modeiates soon so tne mills can resume operations or tne railroads suc ceed in bringing a supply of ccke to the city, the situation in the fire department will become alarming. Many families in Portland are suffering; from lack of fuel on ac count of the proti acted spell ot cold, and the impossibility ot ob taining either wood or oal. Women and children are suffer ing in homes that would other- Wise be comfortable, but the en tire disappearance of fuel from the premises for a week or more Houses that have modern, fur naces and heating appliances are cheerless, as are those whose oc cupants depend upon the parlor or kitchen stove for heat in cold weather, and lack of means to buy fuel cuts no figure in the sit uation, as the orders of rich and poor alike are disregarded by the fuel companies, who are swamped deeper than ever with rush oiders, says the Telegram. At the same iime the supply of dry slab" threatens to give out altogether as a result of the un usual diain of the past month. Whole blocks on the East Side and in North Portland, that a year ago extended into acres of dry slabs, are now perfectly clear of anything that will burn, and prediction that there would be a slump in the price of this kind of mel has been dispelled. Orders by phone had just about as well not be given, as no at tention is paid to them. Person al application at the wood yards or at the coal bunkers is all that counts, and even this, accompan ied by the cash and a team, are not always successful. "We cannot deliver the coal until it is unloaded from Leon XIII, and this un oading is very slow at first. When the steve dores get down to the level of the hold, better progress will be made, but at present hand shov eltng must be resorted to," was the answer ot the agent today. ix-Mayor ttorey, who is in the fuel business, has a car load ot Rock Serines coal, but this will only last a few hours Churchley Bros, have several hundred cords of dry fir in North Portland, but this will only last a few days longer. Some yards are charging $7 a cord for dzy fir, and delivering even at this unusual price, can not be promised immediately, Dry slab brings from $3 to $3.25 a load, and no one knows when the order, given today, will be delivered, if at all. One woman reports that she paid in advance tor a load ot slab over a week ago as the order would not be taken unless she did. Today she call ed to see when that load of wood was coming, and was told that no one knew. A change to milder weather is all that people hope for now. No confidence is given . the promises of fuel companies, and all that the shivering people can do is to huddle together and try to bear with it. In Regard to Lake. - 1 - 1 In a write-up 'meeting of the of the recent Jgtate Horticultural society, Prof. E. R. Lake of this city receives the fol lowing notice in the "Agriculturist:" In point ot service as an offi cer of the Oregon State Horti cultural societv Secretary E. R. Lake closely follows Dr. Card well. He intended to decline a re election, but the emphatic way in. which the society insisted that he keep the harness induced him to keep en with the good work. The members of the State So ciety know what he has done and do not want to lose his services as long as it is possible to per suade him to keep on with the work of secretary. The society, however, recognized the fact that the growth of the society made it necessary to provide a corres ponding secretary to relieve Prof. Lake of part oi the work he has been doing. AN ELECTRIC ROMANCE. Groom and Bride Too Wise for . Telephone Crowd The Jke. There is a huge joke going the rounds just now, in which the entire force at the Independ ent telephone office figures. It happened Thursday, .when Geo. Hines and bride arrived from Portland on the noon train. Their arrival was expected aud J C Lowe and his emploves planned a rousing reception for the bridal couple. Armed with 1.65 wort ', of rue, and with the cab and a prancing livery team, the tele phone people made their way to the S. P. depot ad awaited the arrival of the train on which the happy pair were to come. Ia due time the engine hove in sight. soon the train slowed into the station, and the expectant crowd hurried forward, all smiles and rice, and eagerly scanned the faces cf those who alighted from the coaches. But alas! no happy. blushing bride nor proud, hand some bridegroom appeared, and with longer faces than usual the Independent telephone people meandered back down town, rice, cab and all, a woefully disap pointed crowd. But the bride and groom came on the train as expected. Prom a car window the groom viewed the depot platform from afar as the train pulled into Corvallis, and with a word to his bride they slipped from the train on the side opposite the depot and hurried in to the H. C. Mangas confection ery store, where they remained quietly out of sight until Mr. Lowe aad his employes had de parted for town. A worse beaten crowd has not bee-a seen in Corvallis in a long time than the one which would have given welcome to Mr. and Mrs; Hines, but they wisely j An in the general laugh and candid ly admit their defeat. The wedding occurred in Port land Wednesday, the bride hav ing ttaveled all the way from Michigan to meet and wed Mr. Hines, who is a Michigan man. He came to Oregon about a year ago and is employed by the In dependent telephone company. Mr. and Mrs. Hines are room ing at tne William Urees home and they have the good wishes oi many friends for their future happiness. Bellefountain Briefs. Born, Sunday, to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Perin, a daughter. A very enjoyable party was given Tuesday evening at the Arthur Hawley home in celebra tion of the 18th birthday of Miss Floy Hawley. A large number of guests were present and every one had a jolly time. ' The recent cold snap has dam aged grain oh the . hillsides to a considerable, extent, bat that on the level is apparently but little affected by the fmze. Grasajf . badly injured. i : r m ml I f
