The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-30
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.


Miss Nellie Dohse is teaching
i'm the Chemawa Indian school.
Born, Friday, Oct. %, to the
VIE of r. b. Blodgett, daugh-
ter.
Work Oh the new Methodist
church is being pushed rapidly
along. ---.
Rube and Dick kiger returned
Monday from a fishing trip 10
Clear Lake.
Charles Campbell was thrown
from horse Sunday and had his
arm dislocated.
Charley Smith, who has been
at Astoria for several months, le-
TUNED Monday.
Mckinley club meets tonight at
the courthouse. Business meet
ing for members.
Mrs. N. B. Avery left for Calf
rnia Tuesday. She will spend the
winter in Oakland.
Preaching at Oak Ridge Pres
byierian church next Sabbath at
p. m. by DR.. Thompson.
Thos. Code, who has been
coaching the O. A. g. football
boys, has returned to California.
The Salvation Army people
went to Salem in hacks, Thursday
to meet Commissioner Higgens.
DIR. Pernot's handsome residence
is enclosed and work on the s.lin-
islling up'' is being carried on with
vignr.
DeMoss family, authors of the
famous song, Sweet Oregon" at
the opera house Saturday evening,
Nov. 7th.
VIM. Jones has sued for a di-
vorce from his wife, Minnie Jones,
on the grounds of cruel and inhu-
man treatment and desertion.
Mrs. Jemima Glass died at
Albina Wednesday. The remains
will be inferred this afternoon at
Masonic cemetery, Corvallis.
Tomorrow's demonstration will
occur rain or shine. The more it
rains the bigger the noise. Ore.
gonians are not afraid of water.
The Ladies Coffee club met on
Monday. A part of the program
was straw vote for president and
resulted in II for Mckinley and IL
for Bryan.
The new government snag boat
Is nearly ready for work. Millard
Hayes has been notified to hold
himself in readiness to 60 with
her as fireman.
Every man struck this week for
a news item, talked politics. 1t is
the peoples fault, not the report
er's, that politics monopolize near
ly all the papers space.
The Linn county grand jury re-
turned "not a true bill'' in the case
of Ella Thompson charged with
shooting Edward FarwelI, her low
er, for refusing to marry her.
Evangelical church: Special il
Illustrative sermon for children next
Sunday evening at 7:3O. Sermon
illustrated chemically. Sunday
school at 3 p. m. as usual. Every
body welcome.
j. FL. Campbell, a young man
we'll known in Linn and Benton
counties, was tried in Prineville,
this week, for killing Isaac Swear
niger. last July, and found guilty
of murder in the second degree,
and was sentenced to life impris-
onment in the penitentiary.
The ladies of the Baptist
church will serve dinner tomor-
row from IL o'clock to 9p. m. in
the building formerly occupied
by Stettler's butcher shop. Din
ner Is cents. The proceeds will
be used in painting and papering
the church. Call on the ladies
and get good meal.
Rev. HI. j. Rercher will conduct
services next Sunday at the Con-
gregational church. The subject
in the morning, .'Christ interpret
ing the Human Heart" in the
evening, "The Holy Spirit Coming
into the Human Soul;;" which IS
the third address in the series,
beginnings i'll the Christian
Life" Praise service with choir
and orchestra.
Prof. and Mrs. J. B. Horner gave
a reception Wednesday night to
the officers, orchestra and members
of the Presbyterian Sunday school.
1t was brilliant affair in every
respect and the host and hostess
will ever be remembered by the
guests for giving them most de-
lightful evening. An impro mptu
program of music aud toasts and
a delicious lunch were among the
features of the reception.