The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-12-02
LOCAL NOTES.

LOCAL NOTES.
Post Office fancy goods store IS now OPEN
The Skating rink will be open Saturday
night
Christmas presents at postoffice store.
All kinds of Blanks in stock and for faie
st the Gazette Office.
The Corvallis GAZETTE for sale on the
counter of Buford's news depot.
Novelties os all kinds at postofiice store.
Great reduction in prices for the next
sixty days at Mrs. E. A. Knights millinery
store.
PIP Greffoz has received large variety
o: gold pens, pencils, &C., for sale at reason
able prices.
Carlile has just received large invoice OF
4b. Phoenix cigars the best bit cigar ever
offered in this market.
Rev. Mr.. Williams, from Washington
Territory, occupied the pulpit at the Evan
oelical church morning and evening last
Sabbath.
Cash prizes given Isl ,0OO) to those doing
the best work on one of the Prize Holly
Scroll Saws. Five dollars will procure one
at VIII Bros.
The weather has been London style most
ef the time for several days. Fog predomi-
Mates. particularly of nights, and our early
mornings feel like Buckeye Octobers.
Rev. j. r. N. Bell, has gone to Roseburg
20 visit his family, to be absent two weeks.
Rev. Jos. Emery will fill his appointment
at the College Chapel next Sunday
A piece of zinc placed on the live Goals IN
a hot stove, will, it is said efsectuaily clean
ont stovepipe, the vapors produced carry
ing off SCOT by chemical decomposition.
You cannot please your wife any better
than by making her Christmas present OF
one of those elegant New Home Sewing
Machines. You can find them at WIN
Bros.
Judging from the tones We thought some
of the boys were furnishing music by
eattet in the neighborhood of one of our
churches during services one evening not
long since.
We are glad to note that the Monumen-
tails did NOT disband at their last meeting
. al it was rumerel they would do The
bows still ..hold the fort" and purpose to,
and we hope their pluck will find success
Some one borrowed the Eugene butchers
turkey lust before thanksgiving. Guess he
had to gorge himself on pork and beans, and
perhaps he was not SO thankful as he had
intended to have been over his cranberry
sauce.
Col. ]. T. Long, Grand Lecturer of the
Good Templars Of Oregon, will lecture IN
Corvallis on Dec. 18th and 10Th MIR.
Long ID isrepresented as an eloquent speaker
and we hone to see him welcomed by q
large audience.
A cute five-year-old, whose parents were
connected with the Presbyterian church
said: ssMamma was Christ Jew?" 'Yes
dear" replied the mother "Well that i,
strange, now isn't it, mamma, when hi
father, God, was Presbyterian.
The young peoples meeting Saturda.
night at the Evangelical church was wei
attended and pleasant and for those at
tending, a profitable hour was spent in dis
cussing the subject of prayer. Their mex
meeting is to be at the same church at half
past six next Saturday night. The subject
=. ~. .,,ac;po xx,il1 he faith
be held at the skating rink in about thre
weeks The boys say they will have som
more skates in few days, which they ar
expecting to obtain from Albany. We ar
glad to see their persevering efforts, for
the absence of other entertainments thi
affords cheap and healthy exercise
which all can find amusement either 6
participants or spectators.
We have received the November numbt
Of the Resources of Oregon and Washing
ton." It contains colored map of Orego
and w. T., and is replete with informatio
.concerning the eastern portion of the Stat
and Territory. The information it contain
is instructive to the people of this coast ar
Mighty beneficial in assisting immigrants
secure suitable locations in accordance vii
their tastes or the avocations which the
wish to follow. The Resources is publisht
ppnthly. Terms s., 50 per year.