The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-10-26
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
Go to the hop Saturday night

Go to the hop Saturday night.
New goods weekly, at Nolan's.
The Stuttz Company carry their own bant
and orchestra.
The Stuttz Company play four night
beginning Nov. 5, at popular prices.
Attend the football team benefit tomorrow
evening at the college chapel
For boots, shoes, and rubber goods 60 tx
Nolan's. He has some special bargains.
The regular meeting of the Ladies' Coffee
Club will be held Monday afternoon at 2:30
Miss Ora Spangler came up from Oregon
City Saturday and spent Sunday with hel
parents.
''Gold and Silaer" dress shirts are the
best. Full line at Nolan's clothing store,
from Sl.OO to 81 90.
Marriage licenses were granted Thursday
by Clerk Hunter to VIM. Broders and Louisa
L. Ogburn, and Silas Rentfrow and Josie
Crosby.
The Carriage Factory has been running
short handed this week awaiting the arrival
of stock from the east, which is expected
daily.
The regular meeting of Corvallis Grange,
No. 242, P. of H., will be held next Satur-
day, Oct. 27, at 2:3O p. m. Moses Craig
Master.
ODE Motely and wife, former residents of
Corvallis, but for the past several years
living at Myrtle Creek in Southrrn Oregon,
are visiting old friends and relatives in this
city.
DR.. and Harry Waite will return to G or
wallis in about seven or ten days to give pri-
vate sittings and free lectures. Announce
ments will be made in this paper.
Treasurer Hyde has remitted the sta.e
treasurer the balance of state taxes due
and Lincoln county now stands square
with the state of Oregon. :. The total state
taxes were "a, 999 3O.-Lincoln Leader.
Miss Denman has been employed by the
school board as supernumerary to assist the
principal and relieve regular teachers when
absent. Her salary is fixed at 1925 per
day, to be drawn during the time actaally
employed.
Seth Hurlbert gladdened the hearts
of the GAZETTE force last week by leaving
liberal supply of choice winter apples. If
the ones left here are a fair sample of the
crop raised this year, Seth has the finest lot
of apples ever grown in the county.
The proceeds of the entertainment to be
given at the college chapel Saturday night,
are to be used in improving the football
grounds and the purchase of suits. The
price of admission has been placed at Is
cents and the entertainment begins at s
o'clock.
This afternoon the ladies of the Relief
Corps will give a surprise social at the res
idence of Mrs. j. E. Cronk in Belmont adj
dition. The time will be spent in making
rugs and other furnishings for use in the
Soldiers Home at Roseburg and will be sent
there next month as Thanksgiving offer
ing.
Judge Fullerton this week granted an Or
der to Receiver Clark permitting him to
lease the steamer VIM. Nj. Hoag to the 0.
r. & N. company at the rate of SIS per
day for a term of from 80 to 80 days. The
lease is to contain a condition that the
steamer is not to be taken outside the juris-
diction of the state of Oregon.
Football seems to have taken everyone
connected with the college. Professors are
borrowing rules; the younger students have
is hard at work every afternoon. With such
an interest taken, the boys ought to have the
college chapel filled next Saturday even.
ing at their football entertainment
A prominent citizen awoke the other
night to find two masked burglars holding
revolvers at his head. He was greatly
frightened. Each particular hair of his
head stood on end. The hired girl in the
next room snored and the robbers fed. The
P. c. next day had Spencer cut his hair
pompadour, so no damage was done.
When Miles Wilkins went to bed at tn Q
Hotel Corvallis last Saturday night, he had
ten dollars in his big pants pocket, don't you
see; but the devil a cent he had on Sunday
morning Some kind individual had ap-
pointed himself committee of one to fitch
from Miles his purse, and in the bright
lexicon of youth there's no such word as
fail.
Linn county is strengthening her Jail
by having six steel cells placed within its
walls. The Albany Iron Works was the
lowest bidder of the six firms that competed
for the contract, the Pauly Jail Company
being one of the number. The lowest bid,
So, 900, was $50 under any other, and the
Albany Iron Works should make a snug
little sum at that figure.
Last week the B class of the eighth
grade of the public school organized liter
ary society. John Mum was chosen pres
ident; frankie Gauthorn, vice-president;
Nash Turney, secretary; Esther Avery,
treasurer; and Lawrence Albright, sergeant.
alarms. The society will meet Monday
afternoon. when members will be appointed
for duty, to respond at the following meet.
ing.