The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-05-06

does the business.
Corvallis is housekeeping. Renova
tion, painting, pruning and cleaning i:
in progress all tround.
Work is being pushed on the Soutl
Methodist church building. 1t proves tt
be ali attractive edi6ce.,
The Crystal Lake Cemetery Associa
tion rseets tomorrow afternoon at tie
residence of Mrs. John Burnett
The c. s f. R. k. company pay:
SI,2I2 taxes into the treasury of Bentor
county and the S. P. company $2,573.
At the congregational church. ext
Sunday morning there will be serlEoi
for children. The evening subject viii
be announced.
The wheels so far represented i'll TIE
register at this Office are the Sterling,
Crescent, Crawford, Monarch, Hartford
Ideal, Stormer, Victor, W2verly, WEi:e
and Columbia.
A. l.. Clark, of Alsea, union candidate
for joint representative was in town We'd
hcsday. He has four debates in Lincoln
county this week with Mr.. Swope, re-
publican lawyer from Toleda.
DIR. Del MacClaire, who gives a ser1e S
of lectures at the opera house, beginning
with this evening, comes with the most
satisfactory references. The lectures are
en most important subjects and are free.
Nat Stewart, whom all old time Cor
vallisites remember, and who owned the
recently elected mayor of Lompoc, Cal.
i He is a prominent and wealthy citizen of
that town.
Mr.. Gus Sweet, who has bee, in Cor
wallis several days in the intere.t of the
Mastodou Mastodon Mining and Milling
Co. left for Portland Yesterday. A NUM-
Der of Corvallis people arc financially
interested in that company.
John Allen, now of Portland, has leen
visiting his parents and old frie"ds in
Corvallis for several days, returning
EEOlnC NlOLtldy 11S "dS oNNOih tIeihiSd Oy
A ID. Morrison who has accepted a posi-
ton in the drugstore of Aloazo Allen.
W;n., Gird, philosopher and de::locrat
of Monroe precinct, visited Corvallis
Wednesday, the first time i'll several
months. William had gait like ga
zelle and the Elost experienced walkolo-
gict could not Lave detected even a ten
dency to wobble.
]. c. Mayo has gone to Astoria where
he l:as position on MIR. Hamrlond's
Astoria Goble read. He did not know
nelt one and his family will remain in
Corvallis for the present at least. Cor
wallis hopes he will be returned to the
c. g. E.
In these bright bEsy days with the
glorious Oregon sun sI"iling down upon
us and Providence smiling upon Amer
ican naval warriors, it is difficult for one
to sit kim or her down and take the
pen in hand" This is the reason so few
regular correspondents have sent in their
budget this week. Too MUCK sunshine
aAd patriotism.
Next week the GAzETTE will pu'. .lish
valuable table showing the condition of
the United States as regards the coin i'll
the Country, the paper money in circula-
ton, the population, the circulation per
capita, etc. 1t will be published as
matter of information and will prove
useful to all citizens who take seriou:
interest in the affairs of government.
]. b. Irvine addressed the Mckinley
club at Philotxatl,, Monday evening,
taking the place of legislative candidates
commented upen the successful carrying
out of republican campaign promises
aad showed wherein the success of the
republican ticket would be advantageous
to farmers ana business men. Several
others made brief talks.
democrat estimates that the republi-
can state ticket will have majority ct
| IS i'll Benton county. But he pl; ces
Geer's majority at lis, Duabar's at IT'S
and Tongues at 200. He says Dunbar
will gain heavily on account of Kin-
caid's unpopularity and many democrats
whe feel it their party auty to talk for
Veatch, will, as duty to their county,
vote for Tongue.
Prof. and Mrs. John Fulton start for
Washington D. c. tomorrow. Prof. Fal-
| ton has been granted absence leave by
tn: board to do special work in the Ge-
department of agriculture at Washing
ton. His special study will be advanced
organic chemistry, and chemistry of the
soil. He will visit also Cornell Univcr.
sity and perhaps study new methods and
Developments i'll the science of chemis-
try there. Mr.. and Mrs. Fulton expect
to be East four or five months.
Adolph Peterson and Lafe Wilson have
each little,boy. Raymond Peterson has
all American flag of which he is very
proud and he he has heard some very pa
triotic expressions lately. Meeting little
Robbie Wilson the other day, he asked
him with the bravery of a Dewey,
Would you fight for this fag?" Ne"
said Robbie very coolly, "I'd buy one of
my own to fight for" Raymond is still
stud ying the case. lie thinks there is
something wrong somewhere.
The o. A. Z. baseball nine play at
Monmouth against the Normal team to-
morrow. The makeup of the farmers
team is as follows: Catcher, w. Smith;