The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-07-30
OUT OF TOWN.
Yellow-jackets as Watch Dogs.
Mills Fixing for a Big
Harvest.
MONROE ITEMS.

Louis Fischer, of Peoria, was in
the vicinity Saturday.
The ladies of the Coffey family
are sojourning at Newport.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Loonep spent
Saturday and Sunday at Sodaville.
Tramps made themselves quite
numerous in the vicinity of Mon
roe smoke houses last week.
Mrs. Lizzie Turner, of Califor-
MIA, resident of Benton county
in the early days of Oregon, is Wis
iting friends and relatives near
Monroe.
A large delegation of Method
lists from the south end of the
county attended the quarterly
meetina services at Junction City,
Sunday.
The farming. implements and
household furniture belonging to
E. Maude were sold at auction last
Saturday. The things brought all
they were worth, and in some in
stances more than they could have
been duplicated tor at a second
hand store.
A fine "Howe Platform Scales"
has been put in at the Monroe
roller mills. The Vaudeville
mills arc to be painted and the
warehouse at that place is to be
weatherboarded and painted The
new hall and flour store-room is
completed and the mills are being
refitted with new cleaners, prepar-
atory to taking in the crops, which
will soon be threshed.
The midsummer edition of the
GAZETTE was happy surprise to
the the patrons of that publica-
ton here. Many expressions of
approval were heard from its
friends, and even those who op-
pose its political ideas were found
to declare their appreciation of
tho push and enterprise shown in
its columns
A. P. Starr and son Roy were
the first people to traverse the
new county road. We won't say
that they swore or anything of
that kind, but the way the buggy
tracks wind around among the
stumps, into deep holes and over
places in the ground that are not
altogether regular and even, we
would guess that some tall think
ing was INDUCED in. .
A couple of fellows from Eu-
gene were in this place Friday and
Saturday displaying to the ladies
of the town. whenever they got a
chance, a lot Of cheap Autographs,
many of which were indecent and
obscene, to rather great degree.
This performance, which from
their statement is likely to be re-
peated at later date, had better
be called off, else they may brew
trouble fer themselves.
Z. B. McElroy was down from
Eugene OH trip of inspection
this week. He has not made up
his mind as to what he will do
with his prune crop this year. M.
McFadden, of Lancaster, was with
him, AMI together they took a
drive through the country west of
town. The Professor in speaking
|. OF his trip east, said that at Chi
cago he's encountered the recent
hot wave. .and that while he was in
that city, several persons there
succombed to the effects of the
heat. He reports crops in the
east as being fair, with the excep-
ton of the corn crop, which is al
most failure in some localities.
Mile Starr, the son of M. L.
Starr, of this place, has a brand
new story to tell. On the new
county road just opened north of
town has been erected cattle
bridge, on the farm belonging to
G. B. Starr. Mile was on horse
back near that particular location,
when he encountered a genuine
jack rabbit. He gave the pony a
kick and started after the rabbit,
which at once took refuge on the
the bridge. (We presume he
thought the bridge was a barn
from the angle at which its sides
assembly Mile followed, jumped
off the horse, and before mister
rabbit knew 1t, he was in a fair
way TO make the stuffing for a rab-
bit pie. 1t is one of the very few
specimens of this animal that
have ever come into the William
cite valley.