The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-07-28
NEWPORT NEWS.
NEWPORT, ORE, July 9th, 1893

NEWPORT, ORE, July 9th, 1893.
Editor GAZETTE:
1t is quite needless for your correspondent
to try to give you any items for your issue
of the Goth, inasmuch as he is almost Ger.
tain that few days since he discovered
cycle, riding up and down the ocean beach
in search of something for your columns, so
must have all the news. The happenings
at the coast have been few and far between
during the past week, especially since the
excursionists of last Sabbath returned.
A number of arrivals at the hotels and
cottages are noticeable, besides not few
have been pitching their tents near the ocean
tide.
You are aware that Mr.. Z. W. Hadley,
OF the o. P. r. R., with his family, is COM
fortably settled in his fine cottage on tho
old light house bluff. Mrs. Hadley. his
mother, with her sister-in.law. Mrs. Rey.
nolds, of Chicago, are stopping at the Ocean
House.
Albany is well represented in Judge
Films family and Mr.. L. Z. Blain and wife
with quite number of others.
Our prosecuting attorney, Hon. Seymour
Condor, is on hand with his increasing fam
lily and hard at work fitting his grounds
ready for nice cottage on Nye Creek.
Rev. Arthur j. Brown d. d., of Portland,
came with his whole family, including the
Io 90 1nooko1
near our well known resident, s. G. IRVINE
esq.,, and expects to spend the month of Au.
gust here.
Mr. Webster. our accommodating West
Side conductor, with his household, took
possession of his nice new cottage, just fin.
ished. on Matthew's hill.
Our druggist, E. Woodard, holds forth
from his mansion near the sea, and keeps us
company on the beach.
1t is reported that DIR. Lester, the popular
dentist of Corvallis, spent few hours here
on Sabbath last, and he was not alone either.
Your correspondent always admired DIR.
Testers judgment,
Max. Frendly's family are enjoying the
full benefit of their beautiful cottage by the
sea, and many others I might mention are
doing likewise.
Agate hunting is in full blast ard at early
morn the search begins and continues
through the day, the patient ones now and
then are rewarded by finding water agate,
but few have yet been found and the high
winds and tides arc burrying them in the
sand
Some careless campers started fire the
other day, which soon threatened to destroy
cottages and camps. New Albany was in
great danger, the alarm was turned on and
the chief of the fire department, L. f. Blain
Esq, Immediately rallied his forces aud with
most approved machinery soon extinguished
the flames. It was time of intense ex.
citement and men and women were almost
breathless until the danger was past. 1t
ocean. But this letter is alrea' too long,
and the day is almost done. It is the hour
of the going down of the sun, and his shin.
ing face reflected from the waves is out.
lined against the western sky.
To mind sensitive and devout, commun-
ion with nature is communion with God.
The great and wide sea is the best earthly
symbol Of the infinltude of the Creator.
The waves that come rolling up the beach
are, as it were, the generations of men cast
upon the shores Of: time, and to recede and
be swallowed up and lost. The dim and
distant horizon is the line where the sea
touches the sky, thus the things visible are
but shadows of the greater things that are
invisible, and as look upon the old ocean
at this sunset hour the words of inspiration
stir the very soul with thrilling thoughts,
"For the things that are seen are temporal,
but the things that are not seen are eternal"
T. E. j.