The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1884-05-02

1ne IneSplan cluD, o1 thlS CITY, Will giF'
a pleasing entertainment at the city hal
next Friday evening. May 9th. Th'
drama ''Sylvia's Soldier in two acts, reci
tations, ETC., will be presented. The pro
ceeds will be donated to the G. A. R. boy
of this city.
| The Union Temperance meeting of thu
different churches will be held in the city
hall next Sunday evening, conducted by
Rev. Atkinson, of the Congregations
church. The bell at the Evangelical church
will ring at the appointed hour.
A contract was let last week in Portland
for the building of railroad hospital at
Missoula. The building will be 74x65 feet,
two stories high, and it is expected to be
finished late in July and open for patients
early in August.
The commencement exercises of the
Willamette University has been changed to
Wednesday, June 1lth. Hon. Richard
Williams, of Portland, will deliver the adj
dress, which will be responded to by Rev.
F. S. Hoyt, of Cincinnati, Ohio, who was
the first president of the school.
The Odd Fellows of San Francisco will
celebrate the event of laying the corner
stone of their new building ON the l4th
inst. A movement is now in. progress to
have a general holiday proclaimed in that
city on the day of the celebration, and the
event is expectected to be second to none in
Importance in the annals of Oddfellowship
in that state.
The following notice was posted on the
door of E. Holgate's law office last Monday
morning:
''Gone to Portland to see what the
chances are to carry that precinct for county
clerk. Will return Wednesday or Thursday
evening. E. HoLGATE."
And so it will be seen that Mr.. Holgate
will leave no stone unturned to secure his
election to the office of county clerk of this
county. This is right, for, undoubtedly
he will need all the outside help he can
possibly enlist in his behalf to secure his
election.
. The May number of the Overland Monthly
is on our table It has for some months
been inviting temperate discussions of the
Chinese labor question, holding that any
public policy needs the corrective of an in
telligent opposition, that it may be forced
to constantly make its position good by
argument, instead of slipping into rant
and invective. Judge VIM. G. Blackwood
IL
in this number which will be read with
interest.
Mr.. Canterbury, OF Bates county, Mo-,
arrived in this city last week. Mr.. Canter-
bury is uncle of Judge R. S. Strahan, of
Albany, and comes to Oregon looking for
location for several families from Missouri
He left on Monday morning for Yaquina
bay, and will spend some time at that place
county. We hope Mr.. Canterbury may
find suitable locations in Benton county,
and shall always be pleased to welcome
such gentlemen as permanent residents.
A grand Fourth of July celebration will
be had at Yaquina this year, at which the
whole valley will be in attendance. Ex-
tensive arrangements will be made for the
of campers who wish to attend,
and the Bay will doubtless be dotted with
tents from Toledo to Alexandria. 1t will
afford everybody chance to see the railroad,
the Bay and old ocean, and enjoy the health
giving breezes and drink of the abundant
and free pure water that abounds every
where. Make your arrangements to come,
and enjoy at least one week of sightseeing
and genuine pleasure. Election will be
over and you can just turn yourself loose
for good time. -Yaquina Post.
Mr.. c. S. jerks, in the O. P R. R. office,
has incurred the everlasting displeasure of
the newspaper reporters. Last Monday
afternoon while a gentleman was making
some purchases in Woodcock & Baldwin's
hardware store his horse which was attached
to a cart and left standing on the street,
waited as long as it thought best, when it
started for home without driver, and Mr..
jerks who happenedsto be near, Immediate
ly started in pursuit and soon had the salts
faction of gracefully vaulting into the seat
of the cart and returning the would-be-
runaway horse to its owner, much to the
of the reporter tiends. Such is
life.
At least two large manufacturing estab-
lishments will be erected at points on the
Bay near Yaquina, says the Post, the plants
for which will run up into the scores of
thousands of dollars. When erected they
will give employment to large number of
skilled mechanics. Other large industries
are being talked of, and as the railroad
company has adopted the most liberal of
policies towards all useful business enter
prise, no doubt the talk will end in the
early establishment of numbers of industries,
bringing valuable acquisitions in the way of
and adding at once to the CON-
mercial Importance of Yaquina.
A private dispatch received at Portland
last Monday, from New York says that the
Puget Sound Shore railroad, viz: The
branch which is the connecting link between
the Columbia river and Seattle, will be