The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-04-23
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LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

Ira Allen has beeu visiting in the city
since Saturday.
w. E. Yates is i'll Portland this week
on legal business.
Mr.. I. P. Connor, of Philomath, made
this office pleasant call Monday.
G. F. Cecil, the tailor, left Saturday 70,
California, where lie will locate.
Fred Lockley, of Salem, a former o.
A c. student, visited Corvallis Sunday
Easter Sunday was observed with spe
cial services at the various Corvallis
churches. .-;..r...
The o. A. c. baseball team will play
the Albany college nine at Albany Satur-
day, Ma, L.
Corvallis Grange, No. 242, meets at
Horticultural Hall Saturday, April 24th,
mt p. M. A full attendance is desired.
The new United Evangelical church
will be dedicated Sunday, the 25th OF
this month. All are invited to be pres
ent.
d. c. Sherwin, of Kings valley, was
in town Saturday. He reports that agents
are offering to contract for hops at 10
cents. -..-.
The Hook & Ladder. Company, Tues
day night, elected H. w. Hall delegate to
the fire board and John Warner foreman,
to fill vacancies.
Mr.. S. Raphael. of the firm of Ra-
phael & Son, wholesale llatters, New
York, visited Nolan & Callahan this week
and sold them thirty dozen latest style
caps.
Tomorrow members of the Senior class
of the O. A. c. contest for baseball su-
premacy with nine professors. This
interesting game comes off on the col
lege campus. -
The annual conference of the United
Evangelical church will be held in the
new church from the 27nd to the goth of
the present month. Preaching each ev-
ening of the session.
The ladies of the Episcopal church
gave an afternoon at the residence of
Mrs. w. S. Hufford Thursday, April pad,
Some fine needlework was dispHaSsdaand
refreshments were served.
Jack Mayo. whosist commodore of the
o. c. & E. river squadron, has now
flagship. He brought out sail boat
from Yaqnina this week and will fit it
out with gaso1ene engine.
The Stanford -Berkely field day is de-
clared off, owing to difference of opinion
concerning the manner of scoring points.
This will disappoint Corvallisites. who
expected Brady Burnett to break a rec
ord on distance events. Later advices
tate that the difficulty has been settled.
The Strand magazine, London, for
April has a photograph of Oregon
Beauty" ;" tie tie horse that was remarkable
for an extraordinary and beautiful growth
of tail and xaane. The horse was origi-
nally from Marion county.
This is the season for book beer. Book
is heavy and nasty aud it is safe to say
that no one really likes it, but it is the
fashion to drink it, and refrain from
natural grin,aces, SO men swallow kegs
of the stuff and try to imagine that they
enjoy it.
The spring styles in derby hat are
what should always have been worn by
maI1-neat, nobby and becoming. Our
regular $3.50 kind goes for $2.oo, and
can't be told from $500 one, when ac-
companied with one of our "Happy
Home" suits. N. & c.
'sVell, vat is der news?'' asked Jobs
Addition German of neighbor Yester-
day Haven't you heard?" responded
the neighbor, ''the Dutch have taken
Holland "Oh, vell," commented the
phlegmatic German, "dey vas always
fiten over der. anyhows."
The Oregonian's Salem correspondent
says: President H. B. Miller, of the
State Agricultural College, at Corvallis,
was in the capital this week. Since his
visit, it is said by the presidents friends
that he thinks of giving up literary pur-
suits and aspires to a consulateship to
some German port"
To stop annoying inquiries, it i: an
nounced that Dick Smith, K. of P. and
Treas. H. & L. Co., was not married last
week, is not married now and will not be
married as long as he can say mo" AL
so, it was his bicycle and not himself
that had an accident Sunday and was
sent to Portland for repairs.
.'Nansen at the North Pole" was the
subject of a paper read before the Agas-
siz Society by Prof. Berchtold at its last
meeting. The paper was intensely in
teresting and at the request of the facul-
ty, Prof. Berchtold will read the paper to
the students on Friday evening. The
public is also invited to be present.
The weather is favorable for large crops
and the eastern war promises to make
prices high. The new tariff law will
keep our money at home and encourage
the investment of capital. Prosperity is
peeping above the horizon and will be
upon us before we know it. Oregon far
mers have a pleasant future before
them.
lust received the finest line of baby