The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-05-21


Corvallis last Friday and will be th,
guests for several weeks of their sister
Mrs. L. G. Altman.
Archbishop VIM. H. Gross, of Port
land, will deliver lecture on th,
"Ethics of American Citizenship" at tn,
opera house, Thursday evening, May 2s
at O'Clock. Admission free; no collec
/ tion.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Allen, who have Wis
tied at the home of Rev. Bowersox 70
the past week, went to Corvallis yester
day afternoon by the steamer Rutl,
Mrs. Allen, is daughter of Rev. ant
Mrs. Bowersox.-Statesm
Mrs. ]. c. Mayo returned home las
Thursday from Portland, where for sew
| eral weeks she had been under the ca
of physicians During her absence 81 {
underwent a painful surgical operation
from the effects of which she is still very
weak. She is improving, however, as
well as could be expected.
Joe Caskey and VIM. Hunter have dis
posed of their business to R. w. Gilleti
and will leave shortly for Southern Ore
gou to seek new-location. Both oil
these gentlemen are excellent mechanics
and we trust they will meet with the
su ,cess in their new field that they de.
serve.
Probably the gest,shipmento of chen
f-uit'' ever made FROM any point in Ben.
ton county, was the consignment of eggs
brought down last Monday from Liver
pool landing by ti1enOsR. & N. steamer
Gypsy. The shipment, consisted of I57
cases of 36 dozen to the case, or a total
of 5472 eggs.
W. T. Small received this week from
Vermont nine tonbstones to be placed
over the graves of old soldiers. They
are furnished by the government and ii
is the intention to erect them before
memorial day.. Should there be any
other unmarked graves of old soldiers in
the county, provision will be made fol
headstones by addressing w. T. Small.
c. Davidson left Monday for eastern
Montana, where he will remain dur.
ing the summer. He has accepted a
situation with Mr.. Cornelius, the Mon.
tana stockman who recently purchased
300 or goo head of two and three yeal
old cattle, and which he shipped from
H. - 10 g.
the ranges of eastern Montana.
Work is to begin as soon as the wealth
er will permit on a new church that is to
be erected by the members of the M. F,
church South on land opposite the Bar
clay school house about II miles south
of town. The plans for the building
were drawn by w. o. Heckart, who has
been retained as foreman of the con.
struction work. The building is to be
7Sx52 and its estimated cost is 5000.
w. A. Cummings is one hop grower
who has not lost faith in the business ol
growing hops. He has large yard
near Irwin's butte, which yielded fail
crop last season. With force of fifteen
men and six teams Mr.. Cummings began
the cultivation of the yard last M ,nday
and he hopes with proper attention tc
harvest large crop this fall.
Mcclure's Magazine for June will
Contain dramatic and descriptive story
, of battle by Stephen Crane, the young
author whose wonderful study of wal
from the standpoint of the private sol
dier, "The Red Badge of Courage" i.
the literary success of the day. The
story will be illustrated by Tabor, whose
pictures of soldiers are always good
story in themselves.
Monday afternoon the little child o
Mr.. and Mrs. c. c. Huff, who live foul
| miles west of town, was badly burne l.
| While playing about the FIRE place, it
clothing took FIRE and was nearly burned
off of the child's person before the
fl lmes were subdued Although the &C
cident will not result seriously, th
chlld's burns are exceedingly painful
and it will be some time before they ar
| healed.
The funeral of Frank L. Fisher, who
died at his home in this city Aonda
night, after prolonged illness, occurre'
from the family residence yesterday al
Eternoon. The deceased was born in Cor
: Wallis 81 years ago last September. H
| xuae rnarried in the. fall of 1898 to Mis-
Anna Walden, who with two smal
children, survive him. Prior to last fall
when he removed to town to secur
medical attention, he had lived for sey
eral years on his farm north of Corva
lis Mr.. Fisher was man of industry
honesty aud thrift and was highly e.
teemed by his neighbors and friend
The. remains were,f inferred in crysts
: Lake cemetery.
Messrs. Stickney aud Hewitt opene
:. their bowling alley to the public la
night They have a neat place i'll til
/ hotel Corvallis, which has been fitted u
at considerable expense. The proprl
tors are affable, courteous gentlemen an
are bound to be literally patronizee
Although bowling is new thing in tt
sporting line, it is very popular and e
citing amusement and will soon
quite the thing" especially with tt
young men. The sport is not considert
a gentleman's game alone, for ladi
:. take deep interest in it, and becon