The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-05-15
LOCAL NOTES.
Ice cream at Bain's.

Ice cream at Bain's.
Mrs Wayman St Clair, of Newport, is
visiting friends in the city.
The printers of Salem will hold their an
nual picnic this year on the 4th of July.
Miss Carrie Cressy, of Independence,
spent a few days this week with old friends
in this city.
Bishop Dubbs of the Evangelical church
will preach IN the College Chapel next Sab
bath at 1890 A. NJ.
! Isaac Moore is building a new ferry boat
for the accommodation and safety of travel
ers crossing the river at this place.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. L. Shedd made trip to
visit friends in the Belknap settlement and
returned home last Sunday.
| We are informed that H. C. Kiger, super
visor of the river road north of Corvallis is
doing most excellent work in repairing the
road.
Last Sunday evening E. Rosenthal was
crippled by the hook and ladder truck run
ming over his right foot while going to the
| fire.
| Chas Rayburn has closed his butcher
shop, having ssld out to Jas. Taylor.
Charlie has under contemplation trip east
of the mountains.
On last Tuesday evening few friends of
Miss Ella Rayburn gave her pleasant lit
tie surprise party and a few hours were
spent very enjoyable.
| The crop of Strawberries is unusually
large this season and our market is filled
with as fine variety as were ever picked
from vine.
Rev. E. R. Geary, D. D., of Eugene, will
preach in the Presbyterian church next
Sabbath. Services will be held regularly
at that church in the future.
The rain which began last Monday has
come in light showers and not so abundantly
as many would like to see it, yet it is doing
great deal of good.
Samuel Brown. an aged man. and one OF
the early pioneers Of Oregon, died at Ger
Was in Marion county. on Saturday at 7:4O
o'clock P. NJ, after an illness of some time
Cherries are getting ripe and the average
sized youth anxiously awaits the darkness
so that he may enter the orchard without
being detected by the indignant household
er
Mrs. James E. Edwards, wife of our ex-
county Commissioner, has been for several
days and is still dangerously i'll. The many
friendssof Mr.. and Mrs. Edwards will be
glad to learn of her early recovery.
The Portland Standard says that an i'm :
mense cougar is hunting the subarbs of Cor
wallis, but whether or not that paper knows
anything about it we are not prepared to
say.
Ed. Belknap, of this town, made flying
trip to Belfountain, where his wife had been
visiting friends for a few days. She return
ed home with him and Ed. Is not so lone
some as he was last week.
Messrs. Fred Stanton, Clark Copeland,
Ira Miller and John Priest came over from
Yaquina last Tuesday to transact business
and shake hands with their many friends in
Corvallis.
J. H. Berry long and experienced hotei
keeper Of junction, went over to Yaquina
Bay last week to rent the Ocean House but
we learn that he did not succeed and has
returned to Junction.
| Mr.. Burt Hasbrook accompanied by Mr..
John Lawrence from near junction was in
Corvallis a few days ago. Mr.. Hasbrook
and his brother Frank intend starting soon
to go east of the mountains with cattle.
| Thos. D. Reaves, one ef Benton county
aged citizens and early pioneers who has
been very sick for several weeks appears
not to improve, and it seems only to be a
question of time when he must depart from
this earthly tabernacle.
| Messrs. Wallace Baldwin and HI. E. Har-
ris went to McMinnville last Monday to at
tend the installation OF officers of the Grand
council of Masons of the st1te of Oregon.
which has been recently organized in this
state.
| Mr.. Ed. Belknap, of the Belknap settle
msnt SO we are informed, found some five
or six keyotes in the neighborhood and kill
ed them ALL They were small and found
all together curled up under the side of a
log.
| Mrs. Drummond nee Miss Lizzie Galloway,
Mrs. John Rickard and Miss Millie Doshe,
formerly of Corvallis arrived in our city last
Friday evening from Daviesville, California,
and expect to spend few months with
| their old friends in Webfoot.
| The students of tho Agricultural college
are preparing to give an entertainment at
the city hall at the close Of the spring term
of school. They have under rehearsal the
drama entitled "One hundred years ago."
Judge John Burnett, accompanied by his