The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-10-28
BEAUTr's Bower.
This famous cigar is
Only sold at T. ]. Buford's.

| tIiput,
Mr.. John Ray went to Portland this weel
ON business.
| Wanted.-A few more cords of wood OF
Inscription at this Office.
Buy New Home as they are the bes.
for sale by Will Bros.
| w. P. Ready went to Salem on Saturday
| and remained over Sabbath.
T. ). Buforl, agent for the American
Book Exchange of New York.
| Mrs. DIR. j. B. Lee went 10 Portland or
Tuesday to attend the Mechanic fair.
J. G. Clark of Alsea, was in the city
Wednesday, an favored US with call
business trip to Toledo, he rays the roads
| are awful.
j. r. Baldwin has been at Sheridan fou
several weeks past; he returned home on
Wednesday.
Fresh Yaquina Oysters at Carlile's Per.
sons wishing supplies for families should
| order III the forenoon.
Misses Matte Foster, Ollie Miller, Mira
and Annie Mansfield spent a. few days in
the city this week.
Parties wishing to borrow money can
procure the same on real estate security
by applying to NJ. S. Woodcock.
There is an auction running III the build.
ing formerly occupied by the GAZETTE, and
IL seems to draw good crowd.
Mr.. John Spencer, formerly a resilient #
this city but now resident of Dayton, w.
r is visiting friends in this city.
There are about one hundred Chin amen
now in the city awaiting transportation to
the Bay, where they viii BE- employed ON
the Oregon Pacific as graders.
DR. !. w, Ballard, of Lebanon, spent q
few days in the city this week, he reports
Lebanon fourishing says it is destined to
become veay important city at an early
date.
H. H. Keisling. of Portland, was in tie
city Tuesday. Mr.. K. was for several years
resident of onr town, and his many friends
are glad to know that he is doing well in
his new home.
What has become of the annual ball Of
the Hook and Ladder Company, If We
rightly emember it always occurs in Nc
vember, and up to the present time We
have heard nothing about it.
John HI. Lewis has recently sold his meat
market in this place to Mrs. Andrew
limerick. He therefore hereby respectfully
invites all persons Indebted to hira to call
and settle immediately.
The Oregon Pacific have transferred .
large force of their men from this end OF the
route to Toledo, and will work from that
point in this direction.
correspondent wants to knew if we
twill publ. h cure for apple tree worms"
Yes. if he will let us know what is the
matter with the worms
Tha Oregon Pre- resbytery of the Cumber-
land Presbyterian church, held its last ses-
sion in Fairfield, Marion county, commerc-
ing Thursday, Oct Is.
This country consumes l4.SS0 barrels of
kerosene every day.-Jacksonvllle Sentinel.
The proportion Of servant girls to the barrel
has not been reported
Prof l.. ]. Pawell. State Superintendent
of Public Instruction. will hold teachers
institute ut the Umslna Academy at Will
bur, commencing on the 26tll inst.
Mr. chiicott, one of Wells, Fargo & Co.'S
express messengers on the w. O. r. r., has
been transferred to the Dailes division and
his place filed by Mr.. Frank Effinger.
VIM. B. Brown, son of S. K. Brown Of
philomath, and formerly a resident of this
county, returned on visit to his old home
last Wednesday after an absence of Is years.
Mr.. B. comes from Miami county, Ohio.
We notice that the city authorities have
been cleaning out some of the bitches along
the streets, this is step in the right direct
ion if they were all kept in this condition
it would greatly decrease the tendency to
disease.
Owing to the bad state of the roads be-
tween this city and the bay, the Oregon
Pacific R. r. Lave shipped a large amount
of freight from this place to Astoria to be
carried from there by ocean vessels to the
Yaquina Bay.
U. S. Engineer J. S. Polhemus, was in
the city Monday, and favored us with call
he has just returned from Portland where
he had been looking after business connected
with the harbor improvement under his
successful management at Yaquina Bay.
ssIf doctor has the luck to find ont new
malady," says Oliver Wendell Holmes. ''it
is tied to his name like tin kettle to dogs
tail, and he goes clattering down the high
way of fame to posterity with his attach
ment following at his heels. "-Ex.
Flax culture in Oregon and Washington
Ty. will receive new impetus, from the
fact that specimens sent to Belfast are pro-
nounced of the very best quality. Irish
men men, it is said, are talking of going
into the manufacture of linen ON Puget
Sound
The improvements for the railroad at
To'edo are being pushed forward to compile
ii m with all possible speed. Several houses
l. ave been erected for the use of the compa-
ny and workmen, and work on the ware
house and wharf is going on with accuracy
and dispatch.
DIR. ]. l.. York lectured at the citv hall