The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-07-29
BRIEF LOCALS.
(Seam at Pioneer bakery.

Ia drops at Pioneer bakery.
lady fingers, macaroons at Pioneer
gerry.
new line of Smyrna rugs at L"
|ker-& Cos.
For fresh bread, cakes and pies so
the Pioneer bakery.
Ladies' and children's hair cutting a
Recialty at Taylor's.
6. B. Cronise, of Toledo, is spend
few days in the city.
NV assortment of spring and sum-
Jackets, at Klines this week.
Highest cash prices paid for wool at
ines. Sacks and tw!ne furnished.
Ladies, call at L. Welker Il Co.'S.
end see their new Smyrna and Angora
pgs
Miss Clara Fisher spent several
s this week with friends in 1nde-
sendence.
The finest cup of coffee in town at
the Pioneer bakery, coffee and ice
cream saloon.
CORVALLIS NURSERY Co.-The Cor
wallis Nursery Co., will have for sale
this fall 10000 prune trees.
Our place is the finest and our &C
bmodations the best-Pioneer bakery,
coffee and ice cream saloon.
. Wood will be accepted at this office
in settlement of accounts, providing it
is brought in at an early date.
The annual meeting of the sheriffs
of Oregon will be held this year at
Eugene, beginning next Monday.
Mrs. Joseph Pironi, of Portland,
was in the city the first of the week in
attendance upon her sister, Mrs Jas.
Dunn.
Prof. F. l.. Washburn will leave the
first of the week for Southern Oregon
IN the interest of the agricultural
college.
o. O. Hodson, manufacturer of iron
eornice and roofing, of McMlnnville,
was in the city on business the first of
the week.
An agricultural implement firm at
McMinnville claims to have sold 63
Mccormick binders. Amt dot yust a
leedle high, eh?
Prof. J. D. Letcher started last week
for Alaska, where he will spend the
summer, hoping to improve the state of
his health by the outing.
The galvanized iron cornice for the
new city hall is being supplied by
Hopkins Bros, of Albany, and is now
being put in by Ed. Quinn.
Miss Georgiana Stevens, of Boston,
Mass, is in the city visiting the family
of D. C. Rose. She will probably
remain two Or three months.
Swinburne says in his new essay on
Herrick: "He knew what he could
not do, rare and invaluable gift. !"
We know lots of people who don't
possess that gift. i.
Union miners are killing non union
miners in Idaho with bullets and dyna-
mite because they take the lowered
wages which the union men had refused.
Yet there is free trade in the product
of Idaho mines.
Prof. S. A. Starr, who for some time
filled the chair of natural science at
the Willamette university recently
resigned, and Rev. Leonard G. Coch-
ran, of Fayette, Iowa, has been elected
to fill the vacancy.
How it does recall old times TO see
your boy come home with another
boys shirt on and his back sunburned
from his hear to his heels! 1t makes a
fellow want to be boy and 60 swim.
ming again himself.
The hum of the thresher is begin
ming to be heard through the land, one
of the crews in this vicinity having
begun active operations this week,
while several more are making prepa-
rations to start next week.
The suit to recover the insurance on
the Inman saw mill, burned in this
county last year, Was tried in Portland
last week and resulted in compro-
mise. The mill was insured for $25OO
and in agreement was reached at
$3.50.
The health board of Seattle has de-
cided to raise the smallpox quarantine
against Victoria and other British
Columbia cities unless new cases are
reported there. In the meantime the
precautionary regulations will not be
relaxed.
1t would be mistake, perhaps, to
argue that protection is wholly failure
because there ate some workmen at
Homestead who are not satisfied with
wages ranging from 81 to $11 a day.
The question arises, what wages is pro-