Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-15
S, IL. Young & Son.
Albany, Oregon.
LOCAL NEWS.

President Themas nj. Catch, returne {
Friday from his visit to San Francisco.
Born, Monday to the wife OF Rev. L
M. Boozer, daughter. Mother ant
child doing we'll.
Miss Francis Harris, after pleasant
visit with friends in this city. returned
home to Portland o Tuesday.
Ed Simpson, Of Newport. passed
through Corvallis Tuesday on his way
to Minneapolis where he is to attend {
school of theology.
Public school opens on Monday and
the teachers have been busy this week
= getting everything in readiness for the
reception of the pupils.
Little Earl aHd Anita Harkins, grand
children of Mrs. Greffoz. left Tuesday for
Vancouver. WASH. where they will St
: tend the Sisters and Brothers school.
.Pfof Shaw in reporting his expert
: rnents with sorghum, in Eastera Oregon.
& says the seasons are too short and tht
nights too cool for it's perfect maturity.
\ Fred Steiwer and his brother came uE
t,s., heir farm near Jefferson ON Tues
s.o -. = -eparc their winter residence fol
M .sa ccr,ine School year. Tie remainder
~ ~ the family viii arrive on Monday,
=, first contract for sale Of 1889 crop
-, me % made at, Eugene last Friday.
n..s s Wa ssell OF Goshen agree to
carter Nit. aA Son. of Eugene.
.sfaish Geo T. Ha. 81 cents pei
44ssVv lbs of hops fo,
pouho. been
= great amount of wheat has
aaaled into the Corvallis market durin.
! lne week by the neighborine farmers !,
os.,,a - n's,e rs wheat has thus far been re-
80. 80 mae whH IN has been refused be-
,ds. s '' "n'cf passed through the last
...,s.s town of Corvallis has been un-
,A..h lnll in one respect during the
-. wing to the absence of SO many
!, fcitizens in the harvest fields and
Z :, yards. 1t is stated that the
pick" of Oregon is in the hop yards,
and there is no doubt but what this is
true.
A married man was heard recently to
say: "a women is like one of the big
trnsts. The instant she acquires a coA-
trolling interest in you she becomes a
regular ring master. She will make you
jump through. lie down, roll over, walk
lame and play dead. And don't you
think for minute you ont do it either"
DR.. Farra's driving horse, being left
unguarded in trent of his residence. took
lively spin with the buggy to which it
was harnessed ON Monday afternoon.
1t was lovely spin, but the animal
soon conclucei that it could not overtake
what it was after and coming to halt
was caught near the outskirts of the town,
dut little dimage having been done.
Ben Wo!dt, our jovial fellow towns
men is now full fedged citizen of the
Uaited States. His final papers were
fixed up in the county court last Fri
day, and NJ. P. Burnett and Chas.
Barnhart witnessed him transfer his al
legiance from Emperor Wilhelm to I'm
Gle Sam. His first papers were taken
out in Racine, Wisconsin, in October,
1884.
One of the Hood River fruit grow ers
claims that the first 100 crates of straw.
berries netted him $500, and ne is con-
sequently setting out several more acres
OF the same kind. says the Northwest
Pacific Farmer. Which reminds us that
strawberries are more profitable crop
than wheat, and they can be raised to |
perfection in this section.
An Independence paper, announced |
that Police Judge Greffoz had been in |
that city quietly looking around for
fast driving animal and for the past /
two weeks Judge Greffof has been de. |
luged with letters from owners Of blood
ed animals and hourly asked to step out
side and inspect some son Of Dexter or
Joe Patchen. Now Judge Greffoz |
doesn't want a driving horse and if there |
is any virtue in the law for abating al
nuisance, he proposes to get it out, If /
athis thing is carried much further.
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