The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-06-12

Isadore Jacobs went to the Bay yesterday
morning to be gone few weeks.
Mother Goose Entertainment given by
young folks on Wednesday the 18th.
Supt. E. B. McElroy informs US that the
State Teachers Institute for 1856 will be
held in Corvallis.
There will be service on Sabbath morning
in the Presbyterian church. Preaching by
Rev. E. r. Morgatroyd.
P. NJ. Abbey, the obliging host of the
Bay View House at Newport, and N. l..
Trapp. are in the city this week.
Mrs. F. Cornutt, nee Lilly Canaan, of Rid
die, Douglas county, arrived in Corvallis
Tuesday evening for visit with her par
ents.
Henry Mains. who has heen in Portland
for several months receiving medical treat
ment, returned to Corvallis Tuesday, some
what improved in general health.
1t has been reported that the rust has
made its appearance in grain fields in this
vicinity, but from the best information OBJ
tainable and limited personal observation
the report is without foundation.
Eastern Oregon is greatly excited over a
big ''find" seventy five miles from Union,
eighty miles from Baker City and sixty
miles from Huntington, on a tributary to
Pine creek. 1t is said to be exceeding Y
rich.
Fred Lauchle has opened a new tailor
shop in our city, one door south of Rose
Bro. S cigar factory, where you will find
him prepared to do all kinds of work in his
line with neatness and dispatch.
The match game of base ball which was
to have been played here last Sunday be-
tween the harrisburg nine and the eclipse
nine of this city, has been Indefinitely post
poned. Sickness among the members of the
Harrisburg nine prevented them from play
ing last Sunday.
Jack Hodges, living on Soap Creek, met
with a very painful and almost fatal acci-
dent last Sunday. In working with a colt
attached to dog cart, he was knocke ed
down, run over ami rendered insensible for
several hours. AT last accounts he was re-
covering slowly.
The Portland Ncns cries ont against the
wearing of big hats to the theatres etc. We
call the Ne,rs anil 70 it one better. If ever
anything was aggravating, it is to get be-
hind one of this ten-acre-lot coverings at Il
meeting OF any kind where one wishes to see
anything. But guess will have to stand it
till the fashion changes '-Ex.
A Lebanon correspondent to the Albany
B~itetia says: The Lebanon boys carried off
the broom from the Corvallis picnic Win
ming both the hose and the hook and ladder
races. Tie boys were well pleased with
their success, and also with their treatment
by the Corvallis hoys of whom they speak
i'll the highest praise. They were treated
handsomely.
From every attainable source the good re-
port comes that the farmers are in high glee
over the prospects for large crops, and il
:,
there will be great change in times this
fall. All business men agree that the price
of wheat will be much better this fall than
last, Judging from the past demand for
wheat, and the light crops reported from
every part of the globe.
The report current on our streets the first
of the week that the railroad was to be ex-
tended from here to junction City this sum-
mer, probably grew out of the fact that
Sup.. Brandt, came up from Portland by
special car last Friday evening to meet the
president and his party from the Union Pa
citic, ho came up OH the east side to AL
bany and from there here, and returned to
Portland with Supt Brandt in his special
car. The ''extcnsiun;' report is without
foundation.
Government work Oh the jetty at the en-
trance to Yaquina Bay was discontinued last
SO we are informed by Ala Harris.
The ietty now extends about one-h half mile
from the beach, more shan one hunlred feet
being added to it's length during the last
month of work. 1t is an unfortunate cir
that the appropriation should
have expired before the work was com
pleted, as much of the work nov done will
be to do over agrin.
The Polk County Stock Breeders and
Agricultural Society Fl led articles of incor-
poration in the office of the Secretary of
State. The trustees are J. w. Kirkland,
A. j. Goodman, R. Glow, VIM. Davidson,
L. Damon and J. S. Cooper. The object of
the incorporation shall be to encourage and
improve the breeding of fine stock and to
encourage andpromote agricultural pursuits;
to maintain and hold markets, fairs, and
public exhibitions of live stock, farm and
agricultural implements, and products of
science, literature and art Principal office
at Independence, Polk county.