Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-10-20
James skipton, of Salem, was in Cor

Wallis on Tuesday, visiting his old friends.
! Mark Porter and Cora Gray were is
sued the necessary papers to we'd on
Monday of this week.
/ The heating plant begins operations at
the college on Wednesday, ending long
and chilly period for the professors and
students
The Index, the college paper of Pacific
University has reached our table. It is
a neat pamphlet and contains several
meritorious productions.
The OAO has now an enrolment of
343. The total enrolment of last year
was 33S, showing an increase of 5 over
last years attendance and the list is still
growing.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Louis Belts, of Roseburg
were in the city, Monday visiting their
relatives and friends. They were the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. John Rickard
while in Corvallis
Announcements are out for the we'd
ming of Miss Leila Purdy, of this city,
and Mr.. Edwin Jones of Portland, The
event will occur at the home of the brides
mother, in Corvallis on Oct 25.
The grand lodge Knights of Pythias
voted to; present every member of the
order in Oregon who served in the late
war very handsome medal. An official
roster of the soldier knights will also be
printed in the grand lodge proceedings.
The College Barometer, the OAC's
neat journal made its appearance this
week, the initial issue under this years
management. The Barometer has its
usual bright and journalistic appearance
and begins the new year with all pros
poets of unusual success.
| J.J. Flett and family, of Corvallis,
were here yesterday to attend the funeral
of his brother, DIR. g. H. Flett. That Jim
is now chief of police of Corvallis and is
making good record as an official, his
friends here will be pleased to learn.-
Roseburg Review. Chief Flett returned
| home on Monday aud has resumed his
official duties.
On the last Saturday in this month the
Changers will hold big meeting at their
usual congregating place at the college
armory. Arrangements are being made
by the professors and members to make
the meeting a fine one and great time
,, is expected. 1t will be an all day affair
and the grangers will bring their baskets
of pumpkin pies, pickles and sandwiches.
More detailed announcements will be
made later.
The year 1900 is the 1900th year of our
! era, and is not the I9O1st, as would be
/ the case with an Individual 1900 years of
age at his last birthday This question
is not to be settled by argument from
analogies. but by looking up the history
of chronology. If the first year of cur
era had been designated as 0, A. D., the
century would end with 1899. But it
was designated, arbitrarily by chronology
1, A. D. Consequently the century
does not expire until the close of 1900,
On Monday and Tuesday nights Of
this week, some twenty-five men, were
in their football suits ON the college grid
iron training hard under the direction of
Coach Stickney. The boys are deter
mined and il hard work and patience
make any count towards winning the
championship cup, the OAC has a good:
show of winning. The game that was
arranged for next Saturday between the.
Sophomores aud the remainder of the.
school was declared off. Other games are
being scheduled SO that the football
enthusiasts of Corvallis need not fret for
want of amusement along this line.
Manager Groves does not propose that
the people OF Corvallis shall be hum
bugged if he can help it. A few days age
the advance man of an opera company
arrived in Corvallis and after securing a
comfortable guarantee on certain repre-
sentations as to the merits of this COM
pany, billed it for Wednesday evening.
Manager Groves, however, suspicioned
that the company was not what it was
claimed to be and he wired the manager
to the effect that if the contract was not
lived up toin the strictest sense, when
the curtain went down on the first act it
would stay down. and the audience would
receive their money back. After some
parleying the date was cancelled.
A most interesting fir eak of nature was
that brought into, the Union Gazette
office, Wednesday by Joshua Mason, in
the form of pigeon. The bird was dead
though it had reached the age of two
weeks before it breathedits last breath in
this cold world, and even to reach this
age was remarkable when one considers
the nature of the bird itself. Its head
and entire body, SO far as out side appear
ances are concerned, Is similar to the
4 ordiary run OF pigeons, it has as many
/ feathers perhaps as any bird would have
. of It's age, but the remarkable part of the
: creature lies in the fact that it has not a
bone in its body, and this, sac
circumstance was what led to its inevita
! BILE demise. Mr.: Mason has won
derful freak in this curious bird, though
born unfortunate in its boneless cendi
tlon, all humanity should be thankful
{ that the Great Creator saw fit to shiitth;
! condition on pigeon instead of hui
Imam.