The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-09-02
LOCAL NOTES.


LOCAL NOTES
T. j. Buford
Keeps all of the leading
Newspapers, Magazines, Novels, etc.
how to get ahead-Steal into cabbage
patch.
Now is the time to salt down your wood
for winter.
All kinds of Blanks in stock and for sale
at the Gazette office.
For the latest patterns in wallpaper, go
to the new furniture store.
If you | are nothing to do, don't try to do
it in an editors sanctum.
DIR. E. H. Taylor made a short visit to
Portland the latter part of last week.
Miss Elva Breyman of Salem, was in the
city visiting friends the first of the week.
Capt. Shields of Albany, was in the city
for several days this week and last, attending
conference.
1t will pay you to read every advertise
ment in this paper. They are published for
that purpose.
A wise son maketh glad father, and
prompt paying subscriber causeth ye news
paper man to rejoice.
The friends of Miss Grace Hanna will he
glad to know that she is recovering from her
recent severe illness.
Il,
though they make more fuss, than those
made over the front gates.
Corvallis is good. place for book
bindery. Any information concerning the
same will be freely given at this office.
Messrs Geo. M. Starr, John Vingay, John
Pierce, J. Y. Eccleson and J. Fl. Doty, of
Alseya bay. were in the city this week.
When the apostle Paul said '.all is vanity, F"
he was looking straight at young man
wearing straw hat with blue band around
it.
E. A. Swan, U. S. Indian agent at Siletz
agency was in Corvallis several days this
week looking after business connected with
his agency.
When usefulness is considered, the man
who smokes cigarettes dwindles into insi.-
nifcance by the side of the individual who
smokes hams.
Thos. Montcith and family, Arch Mon
teith and family and Mrs. John Monteith
and two daughters, all of Albany, were in
the city last Sunday.
B. F. Irvine, the obliging agent of the w.
o. R. R. Co., is still absent from his Office.
He is combining business with pleasure on
a trip to Salem and Portland.
AL PygaH, cy Powers, G. w. Quivey,
Emmett Wrenn and T.J. Creighton have
just returned from short visit to the Bay
They say they had way mp time
Engineers Browne and Eastwick, of the
Oregon Pacific, spend few days in the city
the first of the week. They were engaged
in Office work connected with the survey.
If you want neat and comfortable
fitting boot or shoe made of the best material
and in the fastest and most approved style,
can at s. 81. Looks boot and shoe store.
you viii find it.
Quite number of the Oregon Paciics
engineers We're in the city on Saturday and
Sunday last. They belonged mostly to
Engineer Brownies party who have moved
their camp to within about eight miles of
the city.
Rev. ]. r. N. Bell has been appointed by
the M E. Conference, south, to fill the pull
pit of that church in this city for the coming
conference year, Mr.. Bell is an excellent
man and a good preacher and will, we trust,
do much good in our community during his
stay. Not only is his church to be con-
graduated on securing an able minister, but
also the city on the addition to its numbers
of just and upright man, and citizen who
win make his presence known.
The different United States Land Offices
in Oregon and Washington Territory report
more settlements of new land and more
homesteads entered this year than ever be-
fore in the history of their offices. This
shows the interest now taken in this section
of the country by our neighbors East of the
Rocky mountains continuous stream of
whom have been coming to Oregon for
many months past. yet there is room for
more; right here in our own Benton county
may be found unoccupied lands capable and
suitable of furnishing homes for large num-
ber Of settlers.