The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-02-20
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

fOWn.
Nolan & Callahan's new spring style
hats have arrived.
Be sure and see DR.. Lowe about your
eyes next week. Free tests for glasses.
J.H O'Neill, travelling passenger agent
for the o. R. & N. Co., was i'll town
Tuesday. -
Lee Beach is transacting business in
Portland. He expects to be absent about
two weeks.
A carload of mutton sheep left Corval-
lis, Tuesday, for Portland market. They
were shipped by ]. L. Lewis.
The revival meetings at the Baptist
tabernacle are increasing in interest and
will continue through this wsek. All are
invited.
Remember, Dr. Lowe the optitian can't
stay longer in Corvallis than the one
week. See him at the Occidental, as he
does not 60 to residences.
Joe Ripley is assisting Sheriff Osburn
this week in balancing up the tax rolls
preparatory to that officers annual set
Element with the county court
Miss Helen Holgate, who has been
teaching private school this winter in
Wallowa county, is expected to arrive
home about the first of the coming
month
Don't forget DR.. Lowe has been COM
ing to Corvallis for over five years; has
diplomas from the best schools, and,
quality considered, sells glasses as cheap
AS any one. ..-
Miss Amelia McCune, graduate of the
o. A. c., has been elected to the princi-
pa1ship of school in Polk county Miss
McCune has many friends in Corvallis,
all of whom wish her happy sojourn in
Our neighboring county.
Thomas H. Tongue, one of Oregon's
most eloquent public speakers. will lee
ture before the students of the o. A. c.
at the college assembly hall tomorrow
evening. A cordial invitation is extend
ed TO he public to be present.
Prof Geo. Coote, of the State Agricul-
tural College, will be in Dallas, February
II, and in ahe evening at 7 O'Clock will
deliver all address TO the fruitgrowers.
Prof. Coote is we'll known to most of our
citizens, having taken part in the Farm
ers' Institute held here last year. All are
cordially invited to attend.-Dallas OBJ
server.
Walter Scott, WHO was called to Salem
Saturday by Superintendent Gilbert, to
visit his brother, Ed, who was danger
-ously i'll, returned home Tuesday. He
found the patient suffering from severe
attack of pneumonia, but he was receiv-
ing the best of care and medical atten-
dance and prospects for his recovery were
quite favorable.
At a meeting of the administration
council of the department of Oregon,
Grand Army of the Repulic, held in
Portland last week the date for holding
the next department encampment was
fixed for the II, IL and I3 of June. The
encampment will be held at Indepen-
deuce in large auditorium built recently
especially for the purpose.
Persons residing in school District No.
9, will this year have the luxury of two
school meetings instead of one, as here
tofore. The regular business meeting
will occur the first Monday in March,
and OIL the following Monday will occur
the annual election of clerk and direc-
tor, the latter will be chosen to succeed
w. E. Yates, who retires this year.
The law firm of Bryson, Yates & Yates
has ceased. The gentlemen have dissolved
partnership by mutual consent Messrs
Yates will be associated together, whils
Judge Bryson will practice alone. The
dissolution was an amicable one their
large amount of conflicting ehsrtage
rendering it necessary. They will con-
tinue to occupy their present offices.
Frank P. Clark. of Philomath, returned
Monday from brief visit i'll California
He was passenger on the steamer Col
umbia, which lost her rudder while cross
ing the Columbia river bar, and he relates
quite thrilling account of the mishap
Mr.. Clark was as far south as Santa Rosa
and while pleased with the country in
many respects, he believes that the Will
1amette valley possesses more, advantages
than any portion of California.
cit is being rumored that the alligators
which Ira Campbell sent to Eugene from
the east have been put in the Willamette
river at that city. If the Democrat man
fails to take bath next summer the
reason will be known. 1t will not be
safe fo1 Mr.. Campbell to come to Albany.
He had better look out. Albany DEM
.ocrat Campbell has long political
head. His object was to reduce the re-
publican vote this year. Democrats don't
take water for either drinking or bathing
purposes.