The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-05-13

news udlleI CloWGcu Oul lAis WSSh'
Wheat, IS cents; oats, IS to sc cents;
hay, 9 to 10 dollars.
DIR. Thompson starts east today, to
attend tie general assembly. All serv.
ices at Presbyteriaa church as usual.
John Gellatly is we'll liked and has
made splendid official record. There
will be nc change in the recorders Office.
he county board OF examiners are ex-
a,nining eleven applicants for certificates
to teach, this week. There are ninc wo'
inen and two men in the class.
Subject at the NJ. E. church Sunday
| morning. "How Amiable are Thy Tab
ernacles, o Lord of Hosts" Evening,
The Rev. John Parsons will preach.
Rev. R. c. Brooks, of Eugene. will
preach at the Congres satlonal church
next Sunday morning and evening. The
evening" service will begia at s O'Clock.
Misses Retta and Edith Price, students
of District 80. %, having been neither
absent nor tardy three months, were
placed on tllS county superintendent S
roll of honor.
Judge E Woodward is as fair minded
nlan as could be fou.d iii tbs county.
His majority will be liberal, probably
200. A little inquiry will satisfy anyone
that this estimate is a sound one.
Plans have been perfected for one of
the gran lest school picnlcs ever held in
the Willamette Valley, to ae given at
Monroe, Saturday, r1ay 2Sth. Thee
will be the biggest turnout of school
children ever seen in the county.
Shares of stock of the Mastodon Mn
ing and Milling Company, Limited, Elk
City, Ilallo, the great Gold Bug" lt ad,
for sale at John Burnett's Office. great
chance to get i'll on the ground floor of a
great mining company i'll great miAe.
Sock reasonable.
A one ring circus gave good show in
Corvallis Saturday evening. Had it
patronized the advertising columns of
the local papers it would have drawn a
larger crowd. Th2 performance was
cleaner and c!everar than that of larger
circuses.
The lectures given by DIR. MacClaire at
the opera house during the past week
proved very interesting and important
The doctor is not only skillful ply ST.
clan and scientist but he has the happy
faculty Of presenting his s:hject IN a
clear and entertaining manner.
Mr.. Willard Lisville, republican call
dictate for county clerk, is fitted by ma,
tural ability and by training for the oE:ce.
His genial and accommodating disposi-
tisn, his sterling character and his stand
ing as a citizen are in his favor. He is
not radical man, but is fair and toler-
ant in all things.
One week from tomorrow, Saturday,
May 2Ist, the republicans of Dusty ex-
pest to make showing i'll the line of
political dem onstrations that will eclipse
seen i'll that beautiful neighbor-
hood. A speaker from Portland will be
secured aud a host of Corvallisites in
tead to be there. 1t will be good trip
for bikists.
Attention of G. A. R. members anl
Sons of Veterans is called TO the meeting
at G. A. R. hall, tomorrew evening at s
p. nj. The arrange merits for Decoration
Day will be made at TIE meeting, and
since the interest i'll the day will be very
great this year, owing to the stirring
events of tho tim 5, the exercise, it is eX-
pected. will be of all unusual order, and
a general attendance of all Inemcers of
the orders is greatly desired.
1t might be thought impossible TO swr-
prise members of a brass ba:d, for a
band is supposed TO be ready for any sort
of propositions, but the Fireman's band
was surprised Tuesday night. When at
practice an Invitation came for the boys
to visit the residence of Mr. aid Mrs.
Barnhart. They went and found that
their wives and sisters had provided
royal feast for their de, ourment. After !
all elegant exhibitions OF war appetite, !
the entertained and entertainers enjoyed
music, conversations, ETC., until a late
hour.