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"-CtoRVAixis, Benton Counts, Oregon, Tuesday. January 22. 190T.
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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
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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
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0. J. RL ACKLEDGE'S Furniture Store
Corvallis -
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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'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.
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