The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-09-17

Corvallis members of the order will at
tend the ceremonies. III the evening the
young people will trip the light fantastic.
The crop of new lawyers never fails.
There will be large class applying for
admission to the bar this fall. Brady
Burnett hopes to write attorney at law
after his name from that time on. Ed
R. Bryson will take the examination IN
the spring,
Cal. Thrasher aud family have remov-
ed from the Hotel Corvallis and are oc-
cupying the Crawford residence on Front
street. The hotel is to be thoroughly
and remodeled, and will
probably be occupied as boarding hall
for students.
Corvallis was crowded last Sunday.
From all the surrounding country came
people to attend the Methodist confer
ence, and busgies were standing in long
rows before the livery stables. 1t was
pretty day and many families lunched
IN Tic court HOuSC SHddlN.
The Cascade division of the o. G.. <
E. railway line is to be extended to Cor
wallis. Train for the front will leave
Corvallis at a. m, and arrive here at
$50 p. Ill. This will give Corvallis ad-
ditional mail service and prove decided
in other ways.
Miss K. Bertha Ellis, instructor of vo-
cal music in the Oregon Agricultural
College, will be ready to receive pupils
next week. Miss Ellis can be found at
the ladies hall betwces the hours of )
and D. m. During the rest of tine day
at the residence of Mrs. P. Wehber.
Services at the Presbyterian church
next Sabbath as follows: Sabbath school
at 10 a. H., preaching at 1 aid 7:3o, ell
deavor societies at a anil 6:so. Topics of
special interest both morning and even
ing. Most excellent music by the choir
and orchestra. A cordial greeting to all.
Seats reserved for students.
The Corvallis public schools open next
Monday. Parents are requested not to
purchase any books for their children
until the book lists are furnished them,
which will be done Monday. Indications
point te an attendance larger than the
building can accommodate, and it may
be necessary to find another room for the
primary grade.
Sunday afternoon the little four-vear
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Hang,
of the Chinese quarters, while playing
with matches set fire to her clothing and
was so badly burned that she died at 4
O'Clock yesterday afternoon. The fun
eral will be from the Baptist church at
2 o'clock this Tuesday, afternoon.-Al-
bany Herald.
DR.. Ben R. Job returned from Alaska
Tuesday. He says that Mr.. Schmidt is
doing rushing business at Skaguay,
which place is full of adventures, gan1b-
lers and abandoned women and others.
Gambling is the chief industry. Only
a very small per centage of the people
who rushed to Dyea and Skaguay will
reach the mines this winter.
DIR. Lowe, the well known optician of
McMinnville. Oregon, has been elected
lecturer on physical optics in one of
New York's leading colleges. Therefore
he will not return to Oregon until next
spring, at which time he will make pro-
fessional tour Of the state, and will be
better prepared than ever before to serve
the public in the capacity of refracting
optician.
James Skipton, Corvallis efficient po-
lice officer, returned Wednesday from an
extended trip through eastern Oregon.
He also visited Walla Walla, and while
at the depot there waiting for the train,
he saw the vanishing figure of Sid Moore
as he wended his way down the railroad
track in respence to a request from.
Walla Walla's chief of police 10 seek
other fields.
Five Corvallis girls were in Albany
Saturday ON bicycles. They remained
until O'Clock at night, and got to cut
ting up SO and became SO noisy thai
Nightwatchman Baifess ordered then
out of the city and advised them to ge
home, which tkey did. Their father
should use whip ON them or keep then
at home.-Albany Democrat. The Dem
ocrat is mistaken. The girls who wer'
ordered out OF town were in a rig. no
on wheels, and there were oxly three o
them. The error has caused some an
uoyance to several respectable young la
dies who were in Albany that day ol
bicycles.
tMr. Foster, allow me to introduce Mr.
Begue to ysu," politely remarked jim
Lewis. the cattle buyer. Jesse Foste
end VIM. Bogue said they had no objec
tioHs to shaking hands, as tkey had beel
good friends for thirty years. Jim wa
surprised but went straight to business
He had an eye on commissions. Foste
wanted certain kind of bull, and Bogu
had that kind of animal. He so toll
Jesse. "Yes, know, responded Foster
s.but don't want it. 1 don't want t
buy it back. I seld that animal to Bogu
myself." And Lewis who had take
much time and trouble to make tn
trade 60, planted his right boot earn