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Leading Coryallis Newspaper Best Advertising Medium. Vol. XI.IV. Corvallis, Benton Couivty, Orego?;, Tuesday. July 28.- lOOT. NO. 61 I - Hafrffivfrerater And CrrtfiLff Drrrccfer fit- hsr ft-sbrr -i & - - i it- j If F S - Price, - Fifty Cents Manufactured by The Vegetable Compound Company Corvaliis, Oregon 91 UMMER THE JEWELRY We Have for Men We Have for Ladies Cuff Links for the Shirtwaist Shirtwaist Sets, Collar Pins Tie Clasps for the Four-in-hand "Beauty Pins," Brooches Silk Fobs with 'Safety Chains' Bracelets, Tie Pins, all Styles and Prices Back Combs, Etc. In fact any of the little indispensables that a lady needs to complete her summer ccstume. PRATT, The Jeweler and Optician. FOR A FULL LINE OE Campers' Supplies, Tents and Hammocks go to O. J. BLACKLEDGE. You Take Mo Chances When You Buy Groceries At This Store All our goods are guaranteed to comply with the Pura F ood Law We have the best and nothing but the best. We Want Your Business Hodes Grocery "WH0FEARST0SPEAK0F'98?" When the late John Kclls In gram, formerly senior fellow and vice provost of Trinity college, Dub lin, wrote the ballad "Who Fears to Speak of Ninety-eight?" by which he was so well known, he was a young student in his twentieth year. A -writer in the Manchester Guardian tells that about the time when the ballad appeared prepara tions were being made for the ar rest End prosecution of the "Young Irelanders" for high treason. The whole tone of Trinity college was then, as it is now, anti-Irish, and the college authorities took the alarm. I! is own friends and rela tions joined in persuading Ingram not to write any more ballads. The result of the influences brought to bear upon the youthful poet was that he never again wrote a word of what may be called Irish nation al literature. It is said that in after life he was anxious to let it be known that he had ceased to enter tain the views of his student day?, and a Dublin wag once said that the true answer to the question, "Who fears ' to speak of ninety eight?" was "John Kells Ingram." But this imputation seems to be Without foundation. Westminster Abraham Lincoln Was g man who, asrainstal! odds, at tained the highest honor a man could get in the United States, Ballard's Hore" onrd Pyrnp has attained a place never eqnal'ed by any other remedy. It is a sure cure for Coughs, Colds, Bronchi tis. Influenza and all Pulmonary dis eases. Kvery cnother ehould keep sup plied with this wonderful cough remedy Sold by Graham & Wortham. The Gazette for Job Work. TIME Of course, without a doubt. It's best to have it out; Then I'll never have a toothache any more. I've hit the very thing The doorknob and a string, put I somehow kind o' hats to shut the door. Philadelphia Ledger. Conundrums. What is it that a cat has and no other animal has? Kittens. "What is the easier profession, a doctor's or a clergyman's ? A cler gyman's, because he preaches, while a doctor must practice. What's the difference between a new nickel and an old fashioned charter? Twenty cents. I J Poor John. iv i if; fin V;iIP,I SHE RUSTICATED. And Spent Vacation Corvaliis Woman's Letter. Mrs. LinzySharp is expected home this week from a' month's visit up the Columbia at a little place called Mist. To the Gazette she has, by request, sent a letter telling of the section in which she has been taking her vacation, and her many friends will be interested ' in reading what she says. The letter fol lows: ' "The Nehalem is a long, nar row valley nestling among the hills of Columbia .and Clatsop counties. It takes r its name from the beautiful Nehalem river which flows through its center. This valley, I am informed, is about 47 miles loug and not mere than one and a quarter miles wide at its widest point. The head of the river is at a point called Buxton, about seven miles from Veionia. and the mouth is at Iilwaco. The distance between the head and mouth is but 30 miles. Saw mills and shingle mills line this stream from source to outlet, and some o. the most valuable limber in Oregon is found along its course. Timber cruisers are being busv nere now buying up timber, and everyone rates his real estate pretty nigh, especially the tim bered portions. For illustration : One farmer bought a homestead of 132 acres five or six years ago for $1,000, and less than a year ago be sold it for 2,000, and others are doing as we'l. - The O. R. & N. is surveying now, from Tillamook; to Astoria and Portland. Should the road go through here the Nehalem valley will be one of the best in Oregon for its size. No one can realize the productiveness of this section "without seeing for one self- Of grain and hay the crops are always good. Old settlers who have lived here for 40 years state that never have thev seen a fail ure ot crops and that the yield is always good. Wheat aud oats are sown in the spring and I wish you could see the great bil lowy fields of grain that will be readv to harvest in a couple of weeks. Just now the farmers are busy mowing away their hay, which is a heavy crop this year, princi pally clover and timothy. Vetch is almost unknown here, only about one acre being grown for experiment. One rancher asked me if vetch looked anything like clover, when growing. Hop fields are numerous here, also, and yield heavily. About 4000 pounds of cream is shipped out of Nehalem valley per week. A large pastueiizer is located here. - Three shingle mills, all within a distance of six miles, are do ing a rushing business with a daily average output each of 35000 shingles. The mill near where I am staying cut 43,000 shingles yesterday and has cut as high as 52,000 in a day. But what the Nehalem neeos is ' railroad, and tnat badlvtasit is now, everything must be hauled back and forth across the mount ains from Clatskanie and shipped from there by boat or rail to Port land. Produce has to pass through the hards of at least 'wo middlemen and that takes off about all the profit for the Neha lem farmer and manufacturer. Of- fruits there is always an abundance of the varieties that are grown. Plenty of apples, pear?, prunes, but peaches no not thrive here, and for some reason only a few people have cherries. I climbed a cherry tree yesterday a big Royal Ann and ate unti I had to get a ladder to get down, but I must admit that San Jos scale was pretty thick on the fruit. - s - This is the home - of the wild blackberry. A crowd went out Sunday and canre in with every disrx ioadedwith the fruit. Acres of potatoes are growing in the Nehalem this year. Old pota toes are now worth $2,75 and $3.00 per sack and new ones are 5 cents per pound.', Potatoes grown i ere are different from those in the Willamette Valley. The soil must cause the differ ence. These could be boiled whole for .a week and they would not finelt nor tall t pieces. . I must not forget to tell you - how cheap strawberries. cherries and red raspberries are nere, $ also logan berries. The strawberries were considered cheap when 83 cents per pound, and logan berries and cherries sold; -for the same. Red rasp berries were six cents. I think if we Corvaliis housewives had to can .fruit at those prices we would, "cut it out." I shall visit in Portland en route- heme with Mrs. Fred Meader. Mrs. Meader was Miss Olive Brumfield of Corvaliis, who for three years has been assistant principal ot the Wasco high school. She was married about tnree weeks ago. lhe groom is a prominent real( estate man of Portland. Mr. arid M.S. Meader reside for the present at 816 Clackamas street, and are at home to all friends. Tell eveiyone "hello," and that' while I've been having a big time, have seen lots of sights, and this country is near and dear o me, being my childhood home, yet I'll be glad when I reach Cor valiis and see all the dear, famil iar faces again." Wedding at Summit. In the presence of immediate friends and relatives at her home in Summit, on July 17, Miss Ruth I. Strouts, the estimable daughter of E. F. Strouts, was joined in the holy bonds of matrimony to Frank L. Neville a prominent young man of Airlie, Oregon. To the strains of the wedding march played by Miss Hattie Franke, the bride entered the parlor, leaning on the arm of her brother. She was daintly gown ed in a dress ot cream nun's veil ing, and made a very charming picture. The ceremony which was preformed at 12 o'clock by Rev. Bartholomew, was very impressive. They stood under a large bell of marguerites, and the remainder of the room was decor ated in cream flowers and maiden hair fern. The dining room where a sumptuous wedding breakfast awaitedthe bridal party, was beautifully arranged in cream roses and ivy. After congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Neville departed amidst showers of rice and old shoes, for Airlie. They were the receipi- ents ot many beautiful and use ful gifts. A Friend. Characteristics of Animals. The animal of least intelligence m a circus menagerie is the beauti ful giraffe; the most intelligent, the monkey: the most timid, yet the most dangerous, the elephant; most untrustworthy, the cats, including all those animals belonging to the feline family; most affectionate, the seals; most ill tempered, the hip popotamus, too is never m a pleas ant frame of mind from the day of his birth until he is ready to be skinned and mounted in a natural history museum. Spare Moments. Feminine Generalship. On one occasion the noted Brit ish officer Tarleton was speaking contemptuously of Colonel V liiiam Washmtrton - to a patriot lady "Why," said Tarleton, "they tell me he is so ignorant tnat Jie cannot even write his name." With meaning glance at Tarleton's right hand, which Washington had wound ed, the lady replied, "But nobody if better avr.re than you, Colonel Tarleton, that Colonel Washington knows how to make his mark. CLOSING CHAPTER. Of Reports on Benton School Fair Corvaliis Teachers Heard Fmm. Corvaliis Reports for the All Benton School Fair: S. W. Holmes' Room. I herewith send you a delayed report of the seed distribution, and the work that trie children are doing to make the All Benton Fair a success. The pupil i of most ot the rooms doubled or trebled their quantity ot seeds by purchasing additional packages. You may rest assured that there will be an abundance ef vegetables for the market in Corvaliis this fall, even if there will not be enough prizes to go round. Have you noticed the large number of boys and girls in Corvaliis working in the gar dens this spring? Have ycu no ticed how much "better they stick to their tasks than vou would ex pect the average boy or girl to stick to the heavy end of a hoe? Each of those pupils has a list of the premiums to be given next August, and has high hopes of getting a goodly share of the same. These things tell more vividly what the pupils of District No. 9 are doing for the Fair than any list of seed packages given out that T might furnish you, could tell. Hoping that the boys and girls of District No 9 will earn their full share of the premiums at the All Benton School Fair, I re main. Yours respectfully. S. W. Holmes, Principal. C. E. Cummings' Room. We are coming to the Fair and ex pecttcw occupy .jinme .space. there. About sixty packages 01 seeds were distributed from our room, and they are doing their very best to make a showing. Some complaint has been made ot the drought and of the ravages of the squasb bug aud other pests but we realize that the "other fellow" probably has similar troubles, and we expect, and in tend to be, as persistent and per severing as either our competi tors or the bugs. We intend to stay faithful to the attempt until August 31st. Yours for the suc cess of the All Benton Fair, C E. Ctjmmings, 8th B, 9th A. Anna Lindgren's Room. We are all thoroughly interest ed in the Fair, and have put forth extra efforts in doing our part to make it a success. Over 40 packages of seeds were distributed in our room. Several pupils have a small garden of al falfa started, some their beds of nasturtiums, others their beds of sweet peas and squashes. 1 bey have all reported their work a success with but one thing lack ing the rain. All the pupils in 6th B and 7th A have been interested in the wntintr contest, several in the drawing. We have also devoted some time each week in the sp Iling contest. Respectfully, Anna Lindgren. Francis Belknap's Room. The 5th Band 6th A of the, Corvaliis Schools are planning tor the Fair. It was an exciting time in our room wben the seeds were being distributed. Now the little gardeners are anxious to tell bow high their plants have grown and how they are doing. All of the pupils have entered the penmanship contest, and some copies of Longfellow's "My Lost Youth" are beautifully written. VVe ha ve had a great deal of oral spelling this term, and some of the pnoils are well prepared to enter the spelling contest. Francis Belknap. Eena thomtson's Room. The 4th Band 5th A of Dis trict No. 9 are making a' good many preparations for the Benton County School Fair to be held in Ancnst 1907. Fourteen of these boys and girls have entered the writing contest. Everyone cannot expect to win a prize, yet the papers show the willingness and earnest ness of the writers, and some very nice specimens have been turned out. Eight pupils have entered the drawing contest, and trom the amount of ruler., pencils, and erasers, especially the application of the erasers, there is no doubt but that some good maps will be turned out, and probably ome of the contestants wUl gain fame as artists. Several of the little girls are going to try their hands at sew i jgr, some at bread making and fruit canning, and others at mak ing jelly and working buttou holes. I have no dcibt but what some of these little housewives (to be) will make a fine showing in these arts and will probably surp- s ; tueir in -nctors. Both boys and girls are expect ing to compete for prizes given for the,-most beautiful flowers and best vegetables. Others are ex pecting to enter the ciphering and spelling matches. Truly, Edna Thompson. Maude Mattley's Room. The pupils of the third3 grade of the Corvaliis Public Schools are going to do their part in mak ing the All Benton School Fair a great success. A majority of the pupils are working tor the Fair. They hope to win a num ber of prizes as well as to make a splendid display of their summer's woik. We expect to be repre sented in the ciphering and :;pell- mgcontests. Someof the little girls are learning hemstitching and are going to make button holes daring vacation. Respectfully ; Maude MattCEY.'"" Olive Mallow's Room. Regarding the Fair that is to be held . here in the fall, would say that my room is very enthu siastic over the work. A large number of the pupils in my room h j ve entered many of the con tests, and are enthusiastically piar- suing their work along their re spective lines, expecting to win many of the pri2es. 1 ruly, Olive mallow. For The Farmer. For the encouragement of dairy farmers in those districts which are without condenseries we may remark that their farm lands will grow richer while the land of those who sell milk will grow poorer, says the Oregon Agriculturist. It was long ago observed in England that in the long run the farming districts. which made butter were more prosperous than chose which made cheese. The reason was that the farms grew more pro ductive in the butter-making dis tricts while they became less productive in the cheese-making districts. The substance of butter comes out ot the air. It takes almost nothing from the soil. Selling milk does not rob ihe soil as rapidly as selling wheat but it steadily removes fertility from the land. It is estimated that" every thousand pounds of milk sold represents the taking of one dollars' worth of fertility from the land. The business farmer will take this into, account and make allowance foi it when he is selling milk to condenseries, cheese factories or for shipment to cities. If he gets enough more for the milk than for the cream to make up for the loss of fertility and then makes up the. loss to the soil he will be all right, and bis land will be maintained in fertility and productiveness. Finger Marks on Paint. For cleaning black marks on doors , or shutters without injury to most delicate shades of paint a rub with a clean cloth dipped in petro leum is the best. Petroleum is also useful for cleaning the hands after doing some work which would stain or discolor them. The petroleum oil makes them soft and velvety. i
