The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-04-01


but at present resiing in Albany, has
accepted Il position in JAS. Kline's
boot and shoe store, entering upon his
duties to day, retaining, however, his
interest in the store of Will and Link.
Verify, the cobbler returns to his last.
Monday evening. April 4, the origi
nal Fisk jubilee singers will give one
of their concerts at the opera house in
this city. This is the company that
devoted over s150,OOO of it's earnings
10 the building of Fisk university,
Nashville, Tenn. Reserved seats may
be had at T. Graham's
The usual services at the Pfesby-
terian church next Sabbath morning
and evening; preaching by DR.. Thomp-
son. Sabbath school at 10 am. Chris
tian Endeavor meeting at $50 p. NJ. at
the parsonage. Song service at 7:30
p. m. The topic of the evening sermon
will be ga Battle Scene" A hearty
welcome to all.
On Wednesday last, the Garage fac
tory received carload OF steel, for
tires, ETC., from the east, and large
lot of wheels are expected to arrive in
a few days. The catalogues for 1892
are expected to be ready to send out
soon, after which George Eglin, travel
ing representative for the factory will
start on the road.
| The Vincent house and grounds
were sold this week to Sheriff Mackav,
the consideration named in the deed
being $4,000. Our sheriff for some
reason, probably known to himself,
seems to be taking wonderfully deep
interests in hotels and restaurants re-
Gently. We presume good, fat Office,
supported by the democratic party, can
stand it, though.
A great many inquiries have been
made as to why work was not being
pushed on the city hall. The Cause is
the lack of material. The rock which
is to be used is procured from near
Monroe. The roads have been so bad
that it has been impossible to do any
hauling and probably no hauling can
be done for some weeks yet. The con-
) tractors, however, are making efforts
to get the stone brought down by boat
in which event work will be prosecuted
us rapidly as possible.
w. w. Williams, representing the
Independence steam laundry, was in
Corvallis several days the first of the
week. 1t is the intention of the man
ayers of the laundry to secure consider
able trade in Corvallis, and other towns
along the line. If a steam laundry al
Independence can pay express charge:
both ways and still realize a profit
) why would not such an enterprise sue
ceed in Corvallis, which has, if any
difference, d better opening than Inde
pendence
Dorval Irwin, employed in Weber's
furniture store, was unfortunate
enough to crush one of his thumbs
quite badly on Tuesday. He was
5 about to close the heavy door of the
: sale, but failed to make proper allow
e ance for the momentum of the ponder
f GUS door, which swings quite easily or
its hinges, and allowed his hand tc
come between the door and the side
of the safe with the result stated above
The injury is exceedingly painful, but
will probably uot be serious.
We've had all kinds of weather re
S Gently and anybody must certainly be
e. very exacting and unreasonable who
e couldn't find weather to please them.
g The sun smiles for while as jovially
as possible, then little later we are
Igreeted with heavy fall of rain. Tues
day morning the hills west of towr
were covered with SNOW, so that one
+ could leave the valley in the midst oi
bright flowers and within five mile
c find himself IN deep snow At va
; quina bay little more variety was ad
ded by tiff of hail. Oh, yes, we cal
e give you easterners any kind of weathe
n Iyou feel like asking for