LOCAL AND PERSONAL
Mies Geitie Barclay returned
Friday from a visit in Salem.;
Mrs. Addie Teesen returned Sun
day from a brief visit in Portland.
' Clyde and Claire Starr came in
irom tseiierountain, csaturaay 10 re
enter OAC.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Herron of
Irish Bend were visitors in Corvai-f
lie, Saturday.
M. Roberta of Gresham was a
guest at the Dr. Cathey home the
last of the week.
Miss Madaleine Nichols yester
day began a term of school iu a dis
trict near Philomath.
Hiss Grace Nichols left Sunday
for Peoria where she was to begin a
term of school, yesterday.
Mies Bessie Alexander of Stayton
arrived Saturday to spend, the win
ter at the J. E. Fowells home and
attend OAC.
Miss Nancy Campbell entettained
a number of young people in a very
erjoyabie manner Friday evening
at her home.
Frank Brown arrived Saturday
from Camas, Wash., to re-enter
OAC. He was a well known stu
dent last year.
There was a "run" on hunters'
licenses at the clerk's office, Satur
day, 15 being issued duiing the
day. The total for the seaBon is
352.
Mrs. Charles Colbert expects to
leave today for Chico, Calif., near
which place she will visit her sister,
Mrs. Miller. She expects to be ab
sent about six weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Albright of
Portland, former Corvllisites, are
to be in tkis city today, en route
from a month's visit at Newport to
their borne in the metropolis.
TheChappell property near the
8. P. depot, known as the old Tun-
Dicliffe place, was sold Saturday by
Robinson & Stevenson to Johnny
Swick. The consideration was
$1,2C0.
Mrs. Jim Blodgett returned Sat
urday from Portland where she had
been with her sister, Mrs. Markus
Greet;, who is in the hospital there
Mrs. Blodgett went on to her home
at VVreun, Saturday.
Judge McFadden'e drier is now
in full blaston his farm below town
and it is reported' that he will have
4U.UUU pounds of prunes. 1 be yield
in his orchard exceeds all other
years. Junction City Times.
Reuben Kiger continues to inn-
prove in health, snd Sunday was
up and dressed, after being confined
to his b?d fir five weeks. It is
hoped that the news of his eoin
plete recovery may soon be given
out to his friends.
Mrs. B. C. Hale, formerly cf
Oelwein, Iowa, now of Seattle,
Wash., has been visiting at the R.
N. White and the Lewis homes for
a few days. She leaves with nolh
ing but good words to say of our
city.
George Roberts, who was Y. M .
C. A. secretary at OAC last year,
spent Sunday with old friends in
this city. He leaves at once to;
New York from which plaoe ne sails
on the 23rd for Africa U become a
missionary.
Prof, and Mrs. Gerald Taillandier
who have spent the summer in
Europe, arrived the last of the
week and are again "at home."
.Prof. Taillandier resumes his posi
tion as hetd of the piano depart
ment in the OAC School of Music.
Miss Edna Sheehy, who was the
instructor in the vocal department
of the OAC School of Music last
year, is detained at her home in
Washington, D. C, by the ill
health of her father and .vill not re
turn to Corvallis. The vacancy at
OAC has not yet been supplied.
The draymen haven't had time
to eay their prayers for a week, ow
ing to the rush due to the coming
of st'. dents. "They are snowed un-
der to the depth ot oil reet, with
trunks alone," was the declaration
Saturday of one who knew whereof
he spoke.
It ia stated that J. H. Moore is
making desperate efforts to sell his
property in Brimfield, Illinois, in
ordtr to return to Corvallis. His
eon, Vaud, who accompanied him
East, was back in Independence in
time to pick hops this fall.. Truly,
there is no place like Oregon.
Crossing the Aliea mountain in
the dead of night and catching the
, I . " . I 11" .1
I V WAUV i. ... l. vuw vug
next morning is what George Peak
of Aleea did Friday night, leaving
on the ea.ly train for Seattle. The
cause of such a risky and difficult
trip was a message received Friday
from Seattle stating tha his eon,
Charlie Peak, was dying of appen
dicitis in Seattle. Nothing further
has been heard from the bedside.
The young man is about 18 or 20
. r-m .vain mi I ill . urn . I 11 u I n I.
years oigl
Roy Borden came out from New
port the last of the week to enter
OAC.
W. R. Palmer of Dallas has re
turned to enter OAC for the coming
year.
Miss Eiith Casteel arrived yes
terday from her home at Yaquina
to re-enter OAC.
Miss Bertha Wilson has accepted
a position as clerk in E. B. Hom
ing's grocery store.
R. C. Brodie, a colonel of the
OAC cadets, cime up from Port
land the last of the week to resume
his work at the college. t
Waldo Finn, one of the well
known pigskin kickers of last year,
has returned to re-enter college.
His home is in Portlaud.
Carl Wolfe arrived from Portland
the last of the week to resume his
work at OAC and also to fill his old
position on the football team.
W. F. Rice of Corvallis and T. C.
Pritchett of Philomath have bet-n
dr..u to serve on the federal grand
jury in rortlana lor tne UctaDer
term.
Mrs. Markus Gregg, of Bellefcun-
tain, who was recently operated on
in a Portland hospital fur appendi
citis, is doing as well as could be
expected.
Miss Madeline Walker and Miss
Maud Liughead of Albany have
been guests at the Elgin home the
past few days. They are nieces of
Mrs. Elgin. '
Among the old students who ar
rived the last of the week are E. E
Allen of Portland, Clarence West of
Olex, Eastern Oregon, and Irving
Province of Mitchell .
Football practice has already be
gun at OAC in a 'way, and Coach'
Norcoss and 30 men were on the
field Saturday evening, preparing
for the real business of toe season
Mrs. Elizabeth Eates and oBil-
dren departed Saturday for their
home in San Fraucisco, after en
exteneded visit with Mrs. EHes'
sister, Mrs. Gene Simpson, in this
city.
Freeman Bevens and family came
in tbe last of the week from Kings
Valley, where they spent the sum
mer on the ranch and will takH up
their residence here again lor the
wu.ter.
Temperance -al and brother, of
Uanyonvule, were guests of Dr. is.
A. Cathey the last of the week, da-
parting Friday for Independence.
The former and Dr. Cathev are old
time friends.
John Schroeder, editor of the Col
lege Barometer, arrived the last of
the wsek from Portland to enter
college. He is a popular "old" stu
r)nt and many friends welcome
him baok to Corvallis.
H. M. Prka, the new professor
of mining engineering at OAC, ar
rived with his family from Grundy
Centre, Iowa, ThursJiy afternoon,
to take up his work at the college.
He has been employed in the state
college ai. Ames, Iowa.
Miss Grace Wilson, r.ne of Cor
vallis' pretty and popular girls, left
Friday for Eugene, where she is to
spend 4he winter at the home of
her cousin, Roscoe Bryson, and in
cidentally learn dressmaking at a
fashionable establishment in that
city. Her many friends wish her
success.
A postal froiTQ Rev. M. S. Bush,
formerly the popular pastor of the
Corvallis Presbyterian church, re
ceived Friday, reads of follows:
"Please send my Gazette to me at
Ford City, Penn. I have been call
ed to the work here and will remain
in tho East. The news of Corvall?B
and its prosperity is good news to
us."
Carl Rice, superintendent of the
hatchery that is being put in by
the state on the Alsea river, was in
Corvallis, Saturday and Sunday.
Tne racks and flumes are already
completed in the hatchery and the
work of putting la the trougis is
new in progress. A fine lot of nice
fish are in the racks now and the
hatchery will soon be in operation.
William M. Jardine, sgronimist
in charge of dry land investigations,
of the U. S. department of Agricul
ture, Washington, D. C, was a Cor
vallis visitor, Saturday and Sun-'
day. He wns formerly with the
State Agricultural College of Utah,1
with President Kerr and Prof. Dry
den, but is now iu Washington.
While in this city he inspected the '
college farm and was the gueet of
Prof Dryden.
The funeral of the late Percy
Winkle, who died at Belief ountain
at 1 1 :40 Wednesday night, was
held at the cemetery at that place
at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon, the
services being conducted by Rav.
M. M. Waltz. Deceased was born
December 19, 1S74, and wis not
married. His ailment was con
sumption. He was a brother of
Mrs. Richard' Irwin, an! a respect
ed young man. The bereaved have
the sympathy of all in their loss.
. vi w,ih HUzel . itd ' Clara Biker
wei.t ta Albany, yesterday, to enjoy
ita i-i at tho rink. Tbey rtturo
today.
Frank Thtrp cf Tangent was in
Corvai js. Saturday, to visit his
mjih-r, Mrs. Nancy Tharp, who is
very 1 '
.Mr. Nancy Tharp is very ill at
thh h.iDiB of her daughter, Mrs.
Heiry Stone, in this city. Another
daughter, Mrs. Emma Steele, of
Suve., is at the teds:de. , v
The W R. V. ladies are to hold
a 10c -ocial at toe home of Mrs. M.
G-org(, Friday tfteraoon. These
are ve.-y pleasant affairs and bring
iu a .neat sum each time to assist
ti e Relirf Corps ladies in their very
worthy labors. - -y-
Mre. Oscar Healy, has sold her
residence property on Third -tre-i
to Mr. Copel recently nrn."J fr "i
H iod River. It is und-ifetf-.xi ) ti.
conMderatioo wa $4,500, w' -mediate
possession. Furthrr pr
ticuwrs wee not learned.
O of the surest signs of tne
limes is the anoutl appearance of
ths U Vorcrxint farmer, "Unlce
Join Perkins," with his fanny New
ifina-lind r-ay, one of the best
known nf the rural dramas. The
eoiup my is beUor than ev; their
date herejs October llth. '
Bily Goldson met with a painful
acciieut, th-9 last of the week, that
will cause him to nurse a sore .iand
for suveral days to come While
working on his house he started to
fall from the roof and caught at
the valley tin, cutting a aerious
gash in the palm of the hand. The
cut is to the bone and had to be
sewed up.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Howard arriv
ed S-turiiay from Roseburg, where
thry had been visiting and are to
start today to Prineville with Mr.
and Mrs John Howard who have
been at the George Fuller home for
several weeks on a visit. Roy
Howard and bride are to make
their bome in Roseburg, where the
former has a position.
Mrs: Robert Wilson and son of
Suver were in Corvallis, Saturday,
eu route, to Belknap Springs to
spend" a couple of wenks. On their
return they will be accompanied by
Mr. Wiison, vho has spent most of
the summer at the springs in the
hope of benefitting his health.- He
is much improved. Mr. Wilson for
several yea's residad on the Walter
Wilef farm, near Wells.
Edgar Block of Eenton county
and Miss Mamie Bales of Tillamook
were married at the home of the
groom's aunt, Mrs. Henry Stone, in
tbis city at 8 o'clock last Monday
evening, T. T. Vincent performing
the ceremony. This is an item
that should hve been reported and
published while "fresh," but be
cause it is a wedding, and therefore
of interest, it is here given, even
though it is a week old.
An informal, farewell reception
was given at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. George Fuller, Thursday eve
ning, in honor of their daughter,
Mrs. John Howard, and husband,
who are to leave today ' for their
fionoe near Prineville. Games,
music and refreshments were the
features, and a very pleasant eve
ning was spent. Those- present
were: Rev. and Mrs. Handsaker,
Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Cummings,
Mr. and Mrs. John Howard, Harry
and Anna Lmdgren, Hazel Raber,
Fred Swing, Ina, Clayton and Roy
True, Dolly Fouts, A. J. Fuller and
Julia Fuller and Mr. and Mrs.
George Fuller.
"You're bo vain, .Maria," he said,
"that I believe if you were going yisiting
in heaven you wo a Id ask the angels if
your w:ngs were on straight." ' "Yes,
dear," was the reply : "and I'd be so
sorry beoauBe you could never get there
to see." Ex.
Engine Dietzgen Co's. drawing
instruments are the best. Sold by.
Graham & Wells. 0-82
Mrs. J. W. Howard and son Joe arriv
ed Saturday from Es'tern Oregon, where
tbey have spent the summer. They
made the trip b y private conveyance.
A. D. Limbocker was in Salem, Satur
day, to consult a specialist in regard to
his eye3 which have been troubling him
ereatlv for some time. He is slightly
improved.
SANITOL Talcum and bath
powder at Graham & Wells. 75-82
Mies Bertha Foweils of Portland is
yisiting frieuds in Corvallis. - She attend
ed OAC last year but will sjo to Wash
ington soon to teach school. She ex
pects to return to OAC next year. .
1 Miss Bern ice Henness w! Harrisbarg
has returned to re-enter college. Because
of the ill health of her father, -the sister.
Miss Edna, will be unable to return to
OAC.
Drawing instruments at Graham
& Wells' drug store. 80 82
J. E. O'Neil, a graduate from the phar
macy department of OAC last s year, is
visiting old friends in this city. He is
employed in a drugstore in TiUamook
aad is doing welL
Misses Belle and Bertha Edwards of
Bellefonntain are noticed among the old
Btndeata who bave returned ,to resume
their studies at OAC . '
SANITOL Tooth powder nd
p f te at Grabaoi & Wells. 75-82
Sam Graf and Bussell MeCully have
arrived to re-enter college.
L. B. Russell, a last year man at OAC,
who fas spent tbe summer in Baker
City, has returned to do post graduate
work at the college.
The 'Oak Crei' Luiiiber Com
pany has e8tao;sb.jd a yard iu Wd-
kin' Additi iti, Aiui an on baud
f jr sale a o iuipiott) st .k of rougb
and dressed iUiiibrr. . Mine M io?
is in caaigrt of tua yard aud will h--pl-itrted
to fi i your bills. 54tf
F. A.' Brown' of Kiamatn and Clifford
ami Hirry Moore oi Portlaud are among
the well know i "old" students wbo have,
returned to OAO -
Mr. Louie, fattier of Drayman Lou k,
has purchased 19J aires ot land near
Cress and is moving there u take
possession of tbe property. Ha also owns
land in Iowa.
Captain Robinson has sold his interests
iu the city delivery wagous to William
Burrell and tbe latter is now in complete
possession of all' the outfits.
Edwin Rose came up from Portland,
Sunday. It is not known how long he
will remain.
Miss Mary Figler came op from Salem
Saturday to enter school.
SANITOL Grahm & Wells
have received their full line of San
itol preparations. 75-82
In a letter to a Corvallis friend, Mrs,
Alberts. Hall of Schenectady, N. Y.,
formerly Miss Ethel Kyle of this city,
has something to tell of several former
OAC students now in Sihenectady. She
sas: "Mr. and Mrs. Bridges of Port
land are here visiting their son M. F ,
and tonight (Sep. 21 Mr. and Mrs.
M. F. are giving a party for the Ore gon
people and others to meet them. John
Tannock expects te return to Portland
in a few weeks. Mr. Carlson and bride
are expected here soon and will beat
home to their friends after Oct. 1st. Will
Abrahams arrived last Saturday."
Wben in Albany eee the 5, 10 and
15 c-nt counters at Charles Knecbt's
next door to Hamilton's. 56tf
Oregon at the present time fears Pall
man Washington marf taau any other
Toe. Rader, the Willamette half back,
has gone to Washington State college,
and every man from any state is heartily
welcomed. As a result Coach Bender
will have a crack . im, as '.rood as last
year's The OAO game will be a hard
fought one also, for the experiences of
last fall have filled all university hearts
with ire, and the contest should be most
interesting. All the old time rivalry be
tween the institutions is aflame, and
OAC desires to defeat the 'varBity as
much as Oregon wants to beat them
B f
Long & Cross have just taken the con
tract for furnish ing th 9 metal roof and
cornice of the fine new building being
erected for Kline's new department store
It will arn6'.iht to $1100. They have
taken a S7OJO, a J40J0 and a $2000 con
tract at that place besides this and they
are abont done with them. They have
just finished their contract on the St.
John's public school building. Eugene
Register.
Wanted: To purchase from the
breeders Cotswold or Lincoln
sheep. Call ma on Independent
phone No. 561 or No. 284. Wm.
H. Savage, Corvallis, Oregon. 53tf
Tbe contract was let at the college,
Wednesday afternoon, for the new col
lege barn for OAG that is to be built im
mediately. Tbe successful bidder was
tbe Multnomah Mill and Construction
co mpany of Portland, the figures being
1 14, 898. Work is to begin at once, and
tbe structure, which will be very fine of
the kind, will be hurried to completion.
The Columbiaa established a record
last year, and are now preparing for a
busy season and tbe earnest work has
begun among the members. Manager
Stubling has secured Dr. A. C, Steckle
as coach, who will make arrangements to
be with the boys when they practice and
on Sundays, wben they shall receive his
able instructions. Tbe doctor is located
at the Collins hospital and expects to
make regular trips to the city for the pur
pose of drilling the team for tbe coming
season. The Dalles Optimist.
Wilkins & Bovee, Funeral Di
rectors and Embalmers." Succesrors
to S. N. Vs iikins, Corvallis, Oreenn,
Phone 45. 76tf
The editor of The Dalles Optimist
prints the following farewell to his read
ers : "If you should miss this paper next
week and for all succeeding weeks, you
may look for my remains at Pendleton,
for I am due there today to judge a baby
show. . I never was foolish enough to
accept a job like that before, but last
year at tbe same place there were two
corrupt judges. One could see no beauty
in any of tbe kidlets save the red beaded
ones, and the other looked only at the
mothers. It is needless to say that those
two judges were Jeff Myers and Governor
Geer. So I have accepted the job this
year , to show how babies should be judg
ed. I hope yon will give me a decent
funeral and that on my tombstone may
be graven hese words; 'He Died Judg
ing a Baby Show.' "
r
The "Blow"
Almost Killed Father.
Oct an f lectric f a
And keep oft the Flies
It is a well-known fact that flies are
unable to withstand a steady breeze.
An Electric Fan quickly drives flies out
Of a room and keeps them out.
A full line of Electric Co cking Uten
sils. Wiring of all kinds done. Ask the
man.
WILLAMETTE YALLEY CO.
G. A. Clark, Mgr.
A fact that may cot be generally ,known
is that fire wood is being shipped into
Corvallis by the carload, just now. In
fact, shipments have been coming in
occasionally for some time. Three car
loads were received the last of tbe week,
from the Front, two of slab and one oi
old fir. The latter was ordered by Ed
Buxton for the public schools, and Adam
Assel and Starr & Smith's frakeiy each
took a car of the slab wood. Whether
these shipments will bave a tendency to
lower fuel prices in this city or not is un
certain. Unless the quantity shipped in
is considerable there will likely be no
fall in prices. '
When God gives a maa a wife and sis
children. He has done a good deal for the
fellow. But when he gives him a socie
ty woman and a poodle dog, He has
done him np. These society women look
upon children as a nuisance. I have
had some society women shake hands
with me and I would as soon shake hands
with a dead fishtail.' I wouldn't give
oaa of your sock-darning women for all
of the society women in the country.
Between cutting off the tops of their
dresses for the ball room and the bottoms
for tbe bicycle, these society women will
Boon have no clothes left. Sam Jones.
The professor of English in one of our
western colleges was noted for being very
absent-minded. It was his custom to
call the roll each morning before the
lecture. One morning, after calling a
name to which there was no response, he
looked up and peering over his spectacles
he asked sharply : "Who is the absent
boy in tha vacant chair I see before me?"
Ex.
It is a sad thing for children to be
brought up in the city's limits, and to
know so little about country life. One
.summer a number of children were sent
out i Jto tbe country by means of a fresh
air fund, and as they played about the
pretty farmhouse many passersby stop
ped to chat with them.- There were
some fowls in a field close by and some
one asked : "Bid yon ever see chickens
before?" "Oh, yes," repli.-d a little girl,
knowingly; "we've always seen 'em,
only generally it was after they was peel
ed." The OAC sophomores of '07 have an
opportunity to place themselves on record
at that institution in a manner that will
reflect credit upon the class now and for
THE LATEST IN-
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We handle them because they
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made so well; there is no other
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Don't Buy a Poor Gar
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a Good One for the
Same . Price .....
Palmer's name on every garment.-
No cheap trash bears
his label. Call and see; we are
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All Departments..
F. L. FILLER
Corvaills - . Oregon
WHEN YOU SEE IT
IN OUR AD. IT'S SO-
all time to come. Let them meet at once
and pass resolutions against the hazing
practices that bave been in yogue at
OAC during recent years, in which fresh
men have been subjected to niiineroul
indignities and made the butt of all ..oris
of so-called jokes. The "Sophs" of TJ.
of O. have passed such resolutions and
the Guard Bays of the matter; "Presi
dent Campbell spoke to the stndents'and
expleined why be thought the custom
should not be allowed to exist. lie ad
vocated that a class football game or
some other sport be substituted. There
was little opposition and the many fresh
men in tbe college are greatly relieved.'
The first issue of the "College Barome
ter" for the season will appear about the
last of this week, says iaport.
Mrs. Jessie Foster, assisted by Miss
Marie Cathey, gave a "Wagonette Par
ty" at her lovely home near Ina vale, Fri
day evening, in honor of her brother,
Boy Alexander, aad his friend, Dearie
Merrick, both of Bellicgham, Wash,,
wbo are house guests at the Foster home.
Tne rocms were made doubly attractive
by the artistic use oi fern and carnations,
and the game of cobwebs, music and
conversation furnisUed sntertaiument.
A tempting buffet lunch was served the
dozen guests present. The event was
one of the "swell" social affairs of the
season.
Capta'n MoAlexander and family are
to reside in the sma'l house on the col
lege campus, back of Alpha Hall. The
building is being repaired for the pur
pose. Theyonng men of the Y. M. C. A. are
to give a "stag party" to the boys of the
college, tonight, iu the armcy. All col
lege boys are invited to attend and are
promised a good time.
Friday evening the students are to be
given a reception at the armory by the
Y. M. and Y. W. C. A. young people.
There will be a program and a.-nuse-m
en la-for all and a good time is guaran
teed. The Oregon Agricultural College num.
bers among her many students tbis year
Mr. Olon, a Japanese gentleman who has
spent one year in America and wbo de
sires to take advantage of tbe exception
al advantages afforded at OAC. It is
several years since a Japanese student
has been enrolled at the Agricultural
College.