The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-12-01

A fine variety of holiday goods just re-
ceived at P. P. Greffoz
The steamer Bonanza pulled up to Cau-
thorns wharf on Tuesday.
Your attention is called to the new ad
vertisements in this issue. Read and bt
profted thereby.
Miss Rlllia Wren, sister of Miss Becca, i.
at present visiting in the city and stopping
at the Vincent house.
Claude Warren of the Summit, passed
through the city on Wednesday morning o.
his way to Portland, where he will spend Z
few days in business and pleasure.
The Knights of Pythias are making the
necessary arrangements 10 give first class
ball on christmas night. Everything pos
sible will be done to insure an enjoyable
evening.
If you want as good and fine job printing
done as can be done anywhere on the
Pacific Coast, bring your jobs to this office
We are prepared to execute it at the lowest
possible prices.
Our exchanges forgot all about the comet
last week, but the gushes of eloqueuce on
the aurora borealis surpassed any effort per-
petrated to describe the beauty of the long
tailed wonder.
Max Friendly has recently purchased all
of the timber growing upon large tract OF
land on an island above town. He will, in
consequence thereof, be able to better ac'
commodate those wishing lumber.
Scarlet fever and diphtheria at New Ia.
coma W. T., are now under control. Ex'
travagant reports have been made concern
ing these dreaded diseases but physicians
says there is no further cause for alarm.
Mr. Richard Nichols and wife, of Benton
county, and Rev. John Wigle, of the same
neighborhood came over on last Saturday
and spent the Sabbath in this place, Mr..
Wigle preaching in the Christian church in
the morning.-Harrisburg Disaeminator.
Mesers Cressy Il Middleham, musicians
and dancing teachers, have recently arrived
from California ande1pect to make Corval-
lis their future home. They will soon open
a series of social parties which cannot fail
to be source of amusement to the young
people of our town.
Mr.. VIII c. King organized a Good Tenn
plars lodge at Wells station one evening
last week with sixty charter members
MIR. X. is doing good work in this vacin-
ity and members are being added to the sew.
eral lodges throughout the country nearly
every week.
1t will be seen by an advertisement in
another column that E. G. Walker is pre-
pared to buy wheat at the highest price, and
farmers who have any of this cerial yet to
dispose of will do well to call on Mr.. w. at
the Vincent House before selling. The bes.
of reference given to parties desirous of sell
ing Cash advanced on wheat receipts.
Through some oversight our issue, of last
week was made to saw that D. B. Irwin, T.
w. Ross, R. A. Bensell, Clark Copeland
and VIM. Dundon with others there named,
were admitted to citizenship, when it was
intended to state that they were excused
from acting as jurors for the term. Mis-
takes will sometimes happen in any event
The road between here and the Bay is il
an almost impossible condition making it
nearly impossible to make daily trips with
the mail. The proprietors have made ar
rangements, however, to have the mail car
RED from Elk City to Little Elk postoffict
distance of ten miles, by ether parties
so that the trip can be more easily made.
Grand lecturer, w. G. King, accompanied
by Mr.. Bart H. Allen, G. Il. Whitney and
Dr. Embree, of Corvallis, on last Friday
went to Philomath for the purpose of organ
izing lodge of Good Templars in the event
the people of that place desired it. But t
their astonishment when they arrived t
their destination they found that there Wa
no room for temperance work there becaus
all were temperance people and hence ha'
no use for such lodge.
A good joke is told on some of Corvallis
saloon keepers which runs thusly: A Younl
man who has been in our city for the pas
week informed several of our beer dispen
sers that he had accepted an invitation t.
lecture at one of our places of worship ol
last Sunday evening>and that he would hk'
to see them all present. The new lecture
being zone of the boys" on the appointed
evening the church had quite number o
saloon men i'll attendance who expected t.
hear something rich, rare and racy. Thei
disappointment can be- imagined when the,
discovered that it had been a put up job
to get them to attend church, and were com
PEELED to sit and listen to few wholesom
facts for nearly an hour.