The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-05-11
LOCAL NOTES.
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Are your Bowels constipated? Try the
Oregon Blood Purifier.
Genuine pebble spectacles and eye glasses
for sale at P. P. Greffoz.
A Good Concord Buggy new for sale cheap
at Woodcock & Baldwin's.
An amateur entertainment is to be given
at the city hall this evening.
Go to the Occidental the best hotel in
Corvallis for your board and lodging.
Last Monday was lively day on our
streets, occasioned by the city election.
Town property and farm land for sale OF
trade. Inquire at the GAZETTE office.
Mrs. DR.. Farra was passenger for Port
land on Tuesday morning 3 train.
Mrs. DR.. Lee went up to Portland on last
Wednesday to visit at the metropolis.
Legal blanks furnished at this office on
short notice at less than San Francisco
prices.
Your place to buy the cheapest and best
Hemphllls well known stand.
After being disabled for week or ten
days, the steamer Benton is again doing
good service down on the bay.
Although the roads between here and the
bay are quite bad yet, the travel in that
direction seems to be quite brisk.
Many dwelling houses are being thor
oughly renovated these days and our paint
ers are kept busy calsomining, paper hang
ing, etc.
S. R. Hawley, Samuel Reader, w. C..
Woodcock and Wesley Hinton from Mon
roe precinct, were in Corvallis during the
fore part of the week.
Our exchanges are filled with accounts of
President Wizards visit to the coast, and
are highly elated over his promises and
praise in various localities.
On Wednesday evening of last week Mr..
Geo. A. Doris, young attorney of Eugene,
was married to Miss Lulu Dunn, daughter
of F. B. Dunn of that place.
President Willard says that through con-
nection by rail will be made between Port
land and San Francisco by 1884 when the
trip can be made in thirty hours.
There is to be a meeting of the Vacuum
Motor Machine Company in this city to-
night at half past seven for the purpose of
increasing the capital stock.
The fruit crop throughout the valley
pr omises to be abundant and now all fea-s
of late frost nipping the budding trees
have fed.
Rev. Anthony Simpson sails on the
steamer which leaves Portland for San Fran
cisco tonight in hopes that short trip
will improve his failing health.
There has been general cleaning out Of
cutters and back yards. Corvallis now has
her face washed and wears her summer
clothes.
Wells Fargo Co. have established new
offices at Prescott, Columbia county, w. T.,
Echo, Umatilla county Oregon, Foster.
Umatilla county, Oregon.
The amended game laws have been pub
lished in pamphlet form for general dis
tribution and copies can be secured of Hon.
R. P. Earhart, secretary of state.
The latest thing in noses is to the effect
that the stingiest man in Walla Walla
talks through his nose to save the wear and
tear of his fifteen dollar set of false teeth.
A protracted law suit engaging the at
tention of our Justices court on last Sat-
urday over a scrawny little calf, the costs
of which have aggregated about $500.
rather expensive quadruped.
Petitions are in circulation for signatures
requesting the postmaster general to change
a triweekly mail to daily mail Many
are signing the same.
Mr.. J. E. Halliday is erecting building
a few lots south of the Occidental hotel to
be used by Moore & Spencer as barber
shop and to be ready for occupancy by the
18th of next month.
AHC Iniiu 4uai eSily HeetiHS VI tue M
E. church will be held at the Liberty hall
on Saturday and Sunday the 18th and 18th
of this month. Rev. 1. D. Driver will con-
duct the services
We have heard a report that an extensive
quartz ledge has recently been discover
ed near Sodaville in Linn county, which
assays something near eighty dollars to the
ton.
We keep constantly on hand at this Office
large lot and variety of stationery letter
heads. bill heads, envelopes, and papers Of
different kinds which we furnish at the
lowest possible prices.
Cy. Powers arrived in the city on last
Tuesday after an absence of nearly y ear
east of the mountains. His many friends
VII be pleased to learn that he has some
what improved in health during his absence.
About dozen of young boys came up
from Albany the first of the week and
played the second nine game of ball. The
clubs were not evenly matched, however.
and our boys won the game, as they were
both older and larger.
Six more men went down to the bay the
latter part of last week to work on the Gov
ernment works at that place. This makes
twenty-three that have gone down for that
purpose within the past three weeks, indi-
eating business.
The Corvallis fire department is gaining