Vol. XI.IV,
Corvalus, Benton County, Oregon, i riday, September 2T, 190T.
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lane, and is prepared to do
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PHILOMATH SNAPSHOTS.
Happenings of
. About the
Interest' in
Busy Burg.
and
la another week the call will
have sounded and a great army
will muster at roll call in the
public school buildings through
out the length and breadth of oar
Jand and school masters and mis
tresses will be ''teaching young
shoots how to idea. " Our pretty
school building, resplendent in
its new coat of paint, will soon
echo with the many feet of our
men and women of tomorrow.1
The best of everything for these
lads and lassies for as "we meas
are out to tnem, it wui come
back to us again."
Philomath College opened
Sept. 25th at 10 a. m. Prof.
Sheak gave the opening ad
dress. Prospective students are
gathering in and among them ar
familiar faces. The Misses Neva
Kisor and Grace Van Slype of
Eastern Oregon, are again here
and also the Misses Pherne and
Ola Miller of Sunnyside, Wash.
The prospects are tor a promising
school year. Several changes
trave been made in the faculty.
P. O. Bonebrake, D. D., is presi
dent. Miss MaCel Merrick will
take Prof. Kennoyer's place and
Miss Eva Pugsley will assist Prof.
Gressley in the commercial, de-
pal tment. Miss Eila Perrin, as
previously reported, will assume
the duties of musical , instructor.
Prof. Gressley and familv will
occupy the newly remodeled and
modern dwelling, recently acquir
ed by Earnest Castle and known
as the McCullough property.
Prof. P. O. Bonebrake placed
a fine new piano in his home last
week. Another piano was placed
in the Philomath College. .
Charles of Pleasant Valley, greet
ed friends in Philomath, Thurs
day. Geo. Curtis and familv, from
California, who occupied the
C. G. Springer residence, depart
ed for Dallas last week.
Thos. Burns of Portland, a
former student of the college of
Philomath, anived at the S. O.
Watkins home last week and is
stopping there for the preseat.
He contemplates taking a course
at the OAC and will probably be
ia Corvallis by the last of the
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Marion Crail are
the proud parents of a baby girl
Tborn Sept. 16th atTurner, Ore
gon. Their many friends extend
congratulations. ,
A party of local nimrods as
cended Mt. Chintimini last week
to see what they could slay. No
report has reached us of their
prowess, however.
A number of coyotes "made
night hideous" for several nights
last week, in the hills north of
LPhiloniath.
Rev. and Mrs. Walter - Rev
nolds have returned from King
ston, where they had been in at
tendance at the fnneral of ;Mrs.
Reynold's grandmother.
Mrs. J. R. Fehler departed for
Salem last Monday to be. with her
sister, Mrs. J. H. Merryman, for
a number of weeks. In two or
three weeks Miss Metha Fehler
will join her at Salem and after
a week or so they will proceed to
the state metropolis to visit with
friends and relatives tor some
time.
J. E." Wyatt, , and son Elbert,
passad through the burg enronte
for the Peat last Monday to
with other nimrods in search of
large game and incidentally to
look after the large hetd of cat tie
that J. E. and Frank Wyatt have
annually pasturing on their Peak
ranches.
Miss Alice Pimm arrived home
from Corvallis last Saturday pre
paratory to a iourney into the
Alsea country where she has been
employed as a teacher in the
Hayden school district. This is
Ifer initial school and her many
friends wish her success,
i James Archibald, who is home
on a visit from Hood River, was
a guest at the Poctor home Sun
day. . -
; Mrs. W. P. Morris, who was
reported as having run a needle
ints her foot about four weeks
ago, is still very lame and un
able to wear a shoe:
- Miss Fay Newth went to
Salem last week' to take up her
work in the institution for deaf
mutes but was called home last
Monday on account of the death
and burial of her brother Charles.
Arthur Pugsley, junior member
of the firm of Pugsley- and son,
was attacked with pleurisy
the forepart of the week.
y Mr. Van Blanco m of this place
sold his mercantile interests at
Shelburn recently and is to give
possession the first of next month.
Some of our people attending
the great State Fair at Salem last
week were Mr. and Mrs. Jolly
and daughter, Miss Grace, Mrs.
A.M. Gray and children, Mr.
and Mrs. J. T. Warman, Robert
Gellatly, Frank Burnap and J. E.
Becker.
Homer Allen, in the employ
of the C. & E. R. R. Co. in
Corvallis, was a guest of Philo
math relatives Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Parker, new
students of the Philomath college
will occupy the Samuel McClain
house for the present.
Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Baldwin
moved into Robert Clark's house
in the east part of Philomath
recently.
Dr. C. H. Ne wth and family
live-the heartfelt u sympathrJ"of
tiie entire community in their
sad bereavement by the death of
Charles, which came like a bolt
of lightning from a clear sky.
Only two short weeks ago he
was reported as being indisposed
with typhoid fever and now dis
ease hasdone its work. "Charlie,"
as be was familiarly known, was
an estimable young man and,
many hearts are saddened by his
early demise. , Truly, Death ever
lo'ves a shining mark.
Mr. and Mrs. N. P. Newton,
two of our valued pioneers, visit
ed at the home ot their daughter,
Mrs. Lon Henkle, last Sunday.
Mrs. Newton has been in very
frail health all " spring and
summer and her many friends are
glad to know that she is gaining
strength.
Mr. Newton has added dignity
by donning the official star in the
absence of the City Marshall.
Another old pioneer, J. C.
Wood, is Uncle Sam's-agent for
delivering mails to and from the
Big Elk country. Their days of
usefullness are not yet over.
M. K. Watkins of Portland
who visited with his mother for a
short time has gone east to Chi
cago. He will visit his sister,
Mrs. Jennie Smith in Iowa tor a
short time before he returns.
Frank R. Becker returned
home from Kennett, California
last Tuesday and will go to Cor
vallis the last of the week pre
paratory to re-entering OAC next
week. He was accompained
home by Carl F. Dittmar, editor
and publisher of The Copper Out
look of Kennett and The Coram
Recorder of Coram in Shasta Co.,
who will visit at home for a week
or ten days. C. F. contemplates
a trip to the state metropolis dar
ing the interim.
A. E. Taylor has improved
from his recent affliction that
necessitated a surgical operation,
to such an ex.ent that he is able
to be about tiie house at present.
His daughter, Mrs. Zella Myer
land child have returned to their
home at Butte, Montana.
'. Miss Sop lia Dixon of Corvallis
visited at the Menyinan home.
last Sunday returning Jo Corval
lis on the returning train. Miss
Dixon will accompany her
parents to J Yamhill Co.,-' near
McMinnville but expects to re
turn soon to visit . with friends in
Philomath.
Melvin Miller o.' Sunnyside,
Wash., drifted into oar burg
Tuesday to enter college on Wed
nesday. Miss Eila Perrin, the musical
instructor of the college, having
not yet arrived, Mrs. O. V.
White will substitute until her
arrival.
Mrs Z. Custer who has been
visiting with her daughters,' Mrs.
Thos. Cooper of Salem, and Mrs.
George Lilly of Corvallis," arrived
in Philomath on Tuesday, and
will remain here a few . days 1e-
iore returning to her home at
Newport.
Mrs.'Mary Felger was a Cor
vallis visitor last Tuesday.
Miss Eda Allen, who has been
visiting relatives near Mt. Angel,
Marion county for the past
month is expected home next
Monday.
Mrs. Frank Wyatt and children, ac
by her mother, Mrs. J. G. Becker, and
nieces, Metha Fehler and Emily Hart
less visited at the J. R. Fehler home
Sunday.
B. L. Hacker's crop was finally thresh
ed last Monday- by the Hood threshing-
machine and now old Benton can write
"Finis" with regard to the grain crop for
1907. With the grain, hops, peaches
and prunes all harvested and the bay
and straw baled and stored and the sur
plus burned, the husbandmen are pre
paring for another season, and planning
for!9C8.
Next on tapis is the fathering of the
winter's supply of fruits and vegetables
of which there are enough for all.
Fools Elsewhere.
All fools are not native Ore-
gonians. mere are 1001s to tne
south of us across our southern
borxndary line as is evident by
the following letter which reach
ed the Simpson pheasant farm a
few days ago:
"Gents: Please give me once
of stock the description of stock
and what way to handle them
and the size of them and the date
of them in markets I am in the
Poultry Biz and if Pheasant Pays
Better I want them I keep the
full Blood Rhode Island Reds
fine chickens almost size of Ply
mouth Rocks Great and Hardy
cockerels $1.50 each eggs for
hatching in season will sell eggs
from first of Feb at $1.00 Per set
ting please give me Particulars of
vour Pheasants and the ' increase
of stock and what is for market
and Price they Bring and size of
Birds when in confinement
"Will you also quote me Ore-
gon Potatoes (Burbank) by car
load or by sack"
Then follows the signature
which in turn is followed by this
postscript:
"do you Know of the Mason
family that moved in Oregon
from Mclean co Ills they were
my neighbors give their address
and fall name the ones I have re
ferred to moved there in 1854"
Weill Who says a Californian
is not a scholar, no matter if to
the manner born or not? We
know of no Oregonian who could
make himself more ridiculous
than this Californian, no matter
how hard he tried. '"Tis a mad
world, my master;" proof of this
"stares ns in the face during our
wakeful hours and haunts our
di earns by sight.
The Schenectady, New Yerk, Gazette of
SeptlSth save: "Mrs. Thomas J. Thorpe
oi Corvallis. Oregon, is the guest of Mr.
and Mrs. Albert S. Hall ot 131 Park
Place. Mrs. Thorpe is the wife of Gen
eral Thos. J. Tborpe, who graduated
from Union College during the war, hie
diploma having been sent to him while in
the field." Mrs. Hall was formerly Miss
tbel Kyle of this city. "
Virgil Watters went to Portland, Wed
nesday, to attend the conference cf the
M. . church.
The Mrs. Katie Tharp place oi 180
acres, four miles southeast of Corvallis,
was sold this week to Joseph F. Finch
for $4,200. The sale as made by Virgil
WaUers.
CHARLES W. NEWTH.
His Funeral Tuesday Was Prom,
ising Young Man.
Charles Woodward Newth was
born in Graham county, Kansas
on the 15th of April, 1883 and
immigrated to Vernonia, Colum
bia county, Oregon with his
parents at the age of seven.
Ten years ago he accompained
his parents and sister to Philo
raath where he has, grown from
youth to promising manhood.
He completed the public
school course and then entered as
a student in the college at Philo
math where he was graduated in
the Normal course.
In thespringof 1901 the family
was bereaved by the death of the
mother, whose remains were in
terred in the Mt. Union ceme
tery. Since 1904 the subject of this
sketch has been battling in the
world's great van, the greater
part of the time having been em
ployed in and near Portland but
for the past six months has been
in Washington.
He came borne on the 29th of
August, only a little over three
weeks ago, for a short visit, little
dreaming what the termination
would be.Two weeks ago symp
toais ot typhoid tever appeared
and rapidly ran their Jcourse,
taking from our midst one who
will be sadly missed by all, especi
ally by the heart broken sisters,
Minnie and Fay.
Besides his sisters he leaves his
father, step-mother and little
baby brother Carrol, his matern
al grandfather in Kansas, aged
89 years, to whom his sad
death will prove a sore affliction,
and many relatives and friends to
mourn his early death.
After two weeks of severe ill
ness, wnicn wore mm to a
shadow in both mind and body,
'ife took flight last Sunday, Sept.
22, 1907 at 1 1 '.20 p. m.. Funeral
services were conducted on Tues
day at 10 a. m. at Radical United.
Brethern church by Rev. Walter
Reynolds assisted bv I. B. Bald
win, after which the sad proces
sion wended its way to the Mt.
Union cemetery where the re
mains were laid away beside
those - of his mother and baby
brother.
"L,et death do its worst, there
are moments of loy,
Bright dreams of the past that
death can not destroy;
They come in the night time
of sorrow and care,
And bring back the features
that joy used to wear."
Waldo Hall.
Mrs. J. B. Horner took charge '.
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01 vvaiuo nan, as uiauuu, iicu-
nesday. Up to that time 40 girls
had made application for rooms;
more are expected to apply lateiv
The dining room is one of the
finest of the kind in Oregon,,
while all the rooms occupied by
the girls are comfortable and!
roomy. . All rooms are supplied
with wardrobes, chiffoniers with
mirror, washbowl, bedstead and
matresses, steam heat and other
conveniences, all new.
n is gcuciauj liiiuwii, vvaiuu
Hall is the largest edifice by far
of the kind in the Northwest. Ifr:
is four stories hige, 231 feet long;;
and 138 feet wide. There are
about 400 doors in the building
and about an equal number of
windows. It is reliably declared
that there are very few rrejfvho
can sweep all the floors in Waldo
Hall in four days' time, working
ten hours per day.
The south end of the building
will be made ready for occupancy
Saturday as the young ladies ar
rive. Water pipes are being puc in
and wiring done for electric lights
this week, and when finally com
pleted the building will stand
without a superior on the coast.