The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-09-21
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
The News of the Week as
Found by Our Reporter.

Misses Olive and Lillian Hamilton are
visiting friends in Salem this week.
Regular meeting Of the Ladies' Coffee
Club mkt Monday afternoon at o'clock.
Emil Zeis left Sunday afternoon for Port
land to accept position with Fl. Weinhard,
E. s.. Lockwood, representing the Gebbie
Publishing Company, was in town Wednes,
day.
Attorney W. E. Yates returned Tuesday
from short trip to Kings Valley on legal
business.
Eighty hop pickers are engaged in the
yard OF John Witaker. The crop Is turn
ing out well.
Extra copies of the college edition of the
GAZETTE can be had for five cents each.
Send one to your friends.
Rev. Dorward speaks at North Palestine
next Sunday morning at ii a. M, and in the
evening at Corvallis. Sunday school as
usual.
We offer our readers the following nut to
crack: What is the difference between the
Salvation Army tent, and Nelson Bros. bar
Der shop?
r The ladies aid society of the Baptist
church will give six o'clock tea in the tab
ernacle Tuesday the 25th. Admission l5
cents. Everyone invited.
Miss L. Ella Jackson, of Wellington, Kan.
who has been visiting relatives at Lebanon
since April last, was welcome caller at
this office during the week.
Services in the Congregational church on
Sunday at IL a. m. Junior Endeavor at 4
p. m. Y. P. S. c. E. at $50 p. m. Every
body invited and made welcome.
Prof. J. D. Letcher gave an interesting
lecture before the pupils of the principals
room at the public school building last Fri
day afternoon on the subject of Hawaii.
Rev, Kantner will preach funeral ser.
mon at the Oak Creek school house on Sun
day at p. m, in memory of Mrs. Wood,
who died in that neighborhood in July.
S. T. Jeffreys, Samp Henderson, Caleb
Davis and W. A. Cummings returned Sun
day from l6 days hunting and fishing
trip in the now famous Yachats country.
Julian McFadden has concluded to cease
growing potatoes for livelihood and left
last Friday for Eugene to enter the Uni
versity, where he expects to complete the
course.
Miss Julia M. Taylor, of Philomath, one
of the most successful teachers of Benton
county, began three months term of school
near Sh edds, Linn county, last Monday
morning.
Lost, a coat containing letters and papers
addressed to r. w. Nickels and George
Schultz. Lost in the vicinity of the court
house. Finder will please leave at the GA
ZETTE office. -
Jerry Nunan, editor of the Grants Pass
Courier, spent Sunday with friends in this
city. He returned home Monday with his
wife, who has been visiting relatives in Cor.
Wallis for several weeks
Miss Mamie Cundif, who was intending
to organize class in elocution here, has
been chosen as instructor of elocution
and delsarte in the Collegiate Institute of
Albany for the coming year.
A horse, whip, robe and buggy, worth
at least $3.50, was sold on the street Tues
day morning to N. B. Avery for s35. This
amount would pay for 1884 first class
shaves at Spencer & Cases. A
Business is improving over in Albany.
Within wenty.four hours, beginning at
o'clock last Friday night, the clerk of Linn
county issued six marriage licenses, thus
breaking all previous records made in the
county.
A Teachers Column, edited by R. F.
Holm will be a permanent feature of the
GAZETTE and no instructor in the county
should be without it. The paper will be
sent to teachers until Jan. lst, 1896, for
only $500.
George Armstrong has demonstrated that
the best of peaches can be grown success
fully in Benton county. He left a sample of
the Alexander variety at this office during
the week that for size, color and flavor are
unexcelled.
Services at the Presbyterian church next
Sabbath at IL a. m. and lI:30 p. m.
Preaching both morning and evening by the
pastor, DIR. Thompson. Sabbath school at
10 a. m.; Endeavor societies at and $50
p. m. A kind, welcome to ALL
The Salvation Army boys are still in the
city. They seem to be perfect gentlemen,
but to the disgrace Of number of rowdies
who have been attending the meetings and
who have pitiful ambition to appear tough,
we will say they have not been treated as
such.
F. J. Cronk and wife, who have been
visiting at the residence of the formers
father, left Monday for their home in Bara-
boo, Wis. They were joined the follow
ing day by Miss Myrtle Lewis, who &C
companies them home to remain during the
winter.
The Eugene Guard says that DIR. Sharples
estimates the crop of prunes in his orchard
south of Eugene at 10000 pounds. He has
built large warehouse and increased the
capacity of his dryers to 500 bushels per
day. Thirty hands are employed in gathers
ing the crop.
All are kindly invited to attend the SER
vices at the Christian church next Sunday.
Themes of practical interest to all, both