The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-04-21
LOCAL NOTES.
Case has the best baths in the city.

L Case has the best baths in the city.
Shaving at Cases Is cents Sundays ant
, all.
Try Cases for first class shave
or hair cut.
? Mrs. Stout of Newport has gone to mon,
mouth to live.
George Fisl, and wife speat Sunday last
with friends in Albany.
See those beautiful new patterns Of new
carpets and mating just in at Wilkins
furniture store.
NJ. Stock, the pioneer merchant of this
city is preparing to take up permanent
residence in Portland
There will be meeting of the coffee club
at their headquarters iu the city hall next
| Monday afternoon at four O'Clock.
w. II. McBrayer and Old Crow whiskies,
and also imported wines aud liquors for
medical purposes at Tommy Whitehorn's.
The Washington state agricultural college
| oponed at Pullman Monday last after an
extended vacation ever since its last winter 3
| riot.
Polk county will add greatly to her hop
| acreage this year, every section of the
county. It's mighty profitable Industry
| for old Polk.
Arrangements are being made for Union
Sunday school convention, to be held at
| Monmouth May 4th and 5th. There will be
good programme.
Mrs. Walter Bartges, wife of conductor
| Bartges of the o. Z. road and resident of
| Albany, is the guest of MIR. and Mrs. John
Lenger of this city.
The annual state convention of the Y P
S. G.. +. convenes in Portland the 9th, and
| continues three days. Seventeen delegates
will attend from Corvallis.
Jump Of-Joe, near Grants Pass, is now
the scene of mining excitement. A pock-
ct in ledge has been discovered, which it
is said will yield $io0, 600 to the tor.
According to Dallas correspondent DR..
Mason of that place spent Sunday in Salem.
Another writer observes that Miss Clark of
Salem spent Sunday in Corvallis.
Circuit court adjourned for the term last
evening. Judge Fullerton will return and
take the bench on " ednesday next for the |
hearing Of some Oregon Pacific railroad bust
ness.
Money is scarce and times are hard |
Therefore, to Accommodate his customers
ID. V. irvine the foot gear manufacturer
will until further orders take wood, hams, |
butter, eggs-in fact all kinds Of country
produce, i'll exchange for boots and shoes. |
The poem Legend of the Willamette II
and story: Life is not What We Make |
IT. that lately appeared in the GAZETTE,
have been published in pamphlet form
and parties wishing copies Can procure
them at L. Grahams. or Allen & Wood
wards
News Of the death of Timothy Donohus,
at the home Of his brother in Illinois reached
Corvallis this week. For years he was the I,
odd sexton" ofthis city, clever, old char
APf hoy, hoIx, t-o1 nd f<>
memory those who speak of him bestow a |
kindly thought.
w 2 Drugg, who was arrested in Cal.
;fornia warrant from Corvallis, I
charged with burning Touring mill near
Monroe, will sue the New Zealand Fire In
snrance company, hich caused bis arrest,
for $40, ,G09 damages.
Astoria's great moral upheaval doesn't seem
to score single point ST. far on the side of
reform. Although arrests have been made
upon wholesale sweep among the dives,
and trial after trial has been prosecuted not |
conviction has been secured, but on the
other hand the most farcial lot of proceed
ings ever seen in courts of justice have been
witnessed.
The First National bank of Corvallis
wants to lvan twenty Thousand dollars
more 10 its regular patrons in the usual
course of banking. Deposits received from
customers in the usual lines of business |
Exchange drawn direct ON the principal
cities OF Europe and America. Call and
get circular explaining the benefits derived
by using our Auxiliary safety deposit
banks" At your own home.
The Hoag came up yesterday morning and
delivered light freight at her dock besides
unloading big wagon piled high with cam,
ing traps at the ferry landing. The steamer
proceeded to Harrisburg taking freight that
came over the Oregon Pacific route via va
quina from San Francisco. Eighteen car
loads of such freight have been siletracked
at Corvallis within the past week, and this
the 0. P. company steamer is transporting
to points both up the river and down as far
as Portland.
Of course the weather in Oregon is ssthe
worst ever seen" OF course it is, and it
gets that way every other year, or so. Over
east of the Rockies it dor't act that way.
1t don't keep the people ON the ragged edge
of suspense and displeasur It does busi-
ness up with whip-snap movement; sends
out a cycloue thar tears down and roots up
everything in its wake and kills off score
or two of people just to sustain its reputa-
ton. No fnolishness about the weather i'll
Kansas and Missouri ct. al.
week from next Monday will be the lst
of May and the lst of May taxes become de-
linquent and costs will be added for their
collection. At such time as this. when
money seems to come out like drawing
blood out of turnip," any essay at giving
advice seems just about futile, because
those who have the money to pay their
taxes are intelligent enough to use it prop
erly, and for those who haven't the money,
and no herewith TO get it, Whole world
full of advice wouldn't bring them a dollar.
In the face of the almost distressing money
market, people generally will probably do
the best they can because they must, and
there is little else to be said about it,
j. r. Durham, the printer with Fl. Pape's
job printing office, met with painful acci- |
dent yesterday. While running job press
and attempting to watch too many points at
once he overlooked the fact that the fingers |
of his left hand; were lingering between the |
sharp edge of form of type and the iron
surface that does the pressing, and the re.
suit was he had the tips of three fingers
clipped off as slick as a knife would have
| done the Job. fortunately the bones were
not injured, and after the wounds heal up
| the digits will be little the worse for their