The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-10-10

to Corvallis with his family, from an ex-
tended summer visit at the Excelsior
prune farm. He has been dining on the
fat of the land, including countless deer
and China pheasants, and he looks as if
the diet had agreed with him. Mr.. Wag-
goner gives glowing account of his
trees, and is satisfied that the hill soil is
we'll adapted to prune culture. The Elk
celsior prune orchard, in which he is ex-
tensively interested, is the largest in the
state, and bears additional witness to the
we'll known fact that Mr.. Waggoner
never does anything by halves.
A. B. Hammond spent Friday last in
Corvallis. In the evening he drove to
Albany, where he TOOK the overland train
for San Francisco, the object of his
trip to California being that of securing
additional steamships for the San Fran
cisco -Yaquina route. This has been
found necessary to accommodate the rap
idly increasing traffic of the road and
which will be still further augmented
whenever the river steamboat service is
resumed The steamers Bentley, Hoag
and Three Sisters are now undergoing re.
pairs and will probably be ready for ser
vice as soon as the river is at a boating
stage.
Leo Gerhard has retired from the sa
loon business. Yesterday his interest in
the LEO" was disposed of to Ben Woldt,
and hereafter the business will be con-
Quoted under the firm name of Woldt
| & Kirk. Leo has extensive interests in
a gold mine on Blue river aud is max
ing arrangements to take charge of his
property at an early date. The mine is
very valuable property, 10000 being
refused for same during the past few
days. His place of business has been
next door to this Office and he has al.
ways been found an affable and oblig'
ing neighbor We wish him success in
his new venture.
Rev. Hiram Could was transferred
by the recent conference of the NJ. E.
church to Halsey, and with his family
left this week for his new field of labor
During the past four years, Rev Gould
has been pastor of the Methodist Epis
copal church of this city. and during
that time has been faithful aud ener
getic worker. The best wishes Of host
of friends go with him and his estina.
bic family to their new home Rev. H
Oberg, formerly of Halsey. is to take his
place as pastor of the church in this city
Rev. Oberg is a graduate of Willamette
University, and also of the Garret Bib
lical Institute, of Evanston, Illinois
He comes we'll recommended and bears
the reputation of being an eloquen'
speaker.
The Oregon Central & Eastern has is
sued new freight tariff, which makes
sweeping reductions i'll rates between
San Francisco and Willamette valley
points. The new rates effect nearly al
classiications of freight. and will doubt
less result in large increase of business
Those commodities upon which the
greatest reductions have been made, are
apples per hundred pounds, former rate
80 cents, reduced to IS cents; earthen
ware, former rate 35c, reduced to I5c
marble, rough, in boxes, I5c, formerl,
soc; ,nned goods, 400 pounds or more
I7A; soap, common, In boxes, I5c, for
mcrly 3oc; paper, common wrapping
I5c, formerly 3oc; maximum charge, soc
f.rinerly 75c.
The Coast Carriage & Wagon Compa
ny's exhibit at the state fair took bott
first and second prizes. Another firm
having an extensive exhibit of vehicle.
on the grounds claimed tha $50 prize fol
the best and largest display, and wa'
about to capture it, when Irving Burgh
who had charge of the Corvallis exhibit
objected very strenuollsly to such pro
!. ceeding. He claimed that, although the
Portland firm had a more extensive dis
play, it was not entitled to the prize, be
cause the award was to be made for the
best, as we'll as the largest exhibit. The
fact that the Coast display captured the
blue ribbon was an evidence that its ex
hibit was the best, and was therefore en-
titled the $50 MIR. Burgh had some diff
ficulty in convincing the judges that hi.
position was the right one. but finally
succeeded in carrying off the cash.
There has always been some diversity
of opinion as to whether job printing il
properly termed an art, or if it is merel,
a trade. Those holding the latter viev
are decidedly in the minority, and toda,
the opinion generally prevails that well
executed job printing is art. Those VIII.
have noticed recent lot Of o. A. c. tab
lets turned out by the GAzErrK Office fo
Allen 6, Woodward pronounce the worl
as being very artistic. The job consisted
of 200 tablets-Ioo each of letter and
note size The letter size are made o
12-pound Ashland mills paper. with {
neatly printed heading. and fifty sheet:
are bound in each tablet. The note size
made of Writings cream laid paper
have seventy-6ve sheets to the tablet
They sell for twenty-five cents each. The
stock is of splendid quality and the pa
per alone, without the printing is fully
worth the price asked for the tablets.
MARRIED..
In this city, Oct. 9, 1895, at the residenc
Of the brides parents, Mr.. Ed. Zeis and Mis-