Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-08-18

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good goods ever shown in Corvallis
Ladies are iHvited to inspect these goods
Prof. J. B. Horner, of the OregnI
Agricultural College, is the author of ,
reat little book entitled Oregon Litera
ture." 1t contains very interesting
essay npon what Oregoz has accom-
plished in the production of literature anC
the causes, temporary and permanent
which effect the character of the state
There are also selections from our lead
ing authors. The book is most readable
| from beginning to end-.Rural Northwest
Ii weather conditions are favorable
hop picking will begin about the 10th
of September, The growers seem to BIZ
pretty well agreed that not more than
forty cents per box will be paid fol-
picking. They say that for several years
the pickers were the only ones who go
anything out of the hop crop. They
made wages while the growers were
losing money, SO that even though hops
bring much better price this year the
pickers should be satisfied with Accent
rate, at which good wages can be made
in the excellent condition of the yards.
The sad news was received in Albany
the first of the week, telling of the death
of Miss Mary Cundiff, at Ruston, La.
Miss Cundiff vas graduate OF Albany
College, leaving that institution in 1893,
she as also a graduate of Willamette
University in the course of oratory. In
1897 she went to Chicago, completing a
course in oratory iu that city from where
she went to Ruston to take up the work
of teaching. Miss Cundif was talented
woman and the announcement of her
death was received with much regret by
her many friends, not only in her old
home in Albany, but in Corvallis and the
vicinity as we'll.
Colonel John T. Grayson, the veteran
mining man and promoter said recently
in the columns of the New York Trib-
une: "The outlook in mining has never
been brighter than it is today, and the
opportunities for sound investments
have never been better. The beauty
about our mines is that we have no
stock gambling propositions in Oregon.
We work our own mines, and we work
them for business purposes. Some Of
the best paying gold mines in the coun-
try are in Oregon. predict that within
the next two years this country will be
just the same as California during the
old Comstock boom. 1t will be the
banner mining camp of the world"
That the OAC has in its faculty men
whose influence is more than statewide,
and whose efforts are appreciated, is at
tested by the following deserved tribute
from the Pendleton East Oregonian:
''Prof. Shaw was one OF the men to whom
the Grande Ronde valley owes the start
ing of the beet sugar industry, for he
persistently maintained course of expe-
fiments for several years, and did as
much as any man towards the final re
suit that has been attained. He has
made the government experiment sta
tion of practical utility to the producers
OF the state and the coast generally, and
that is quite generally the opinion
throughout the state of Oregon"
A. G. Miller, the genial postmaster of
Kings Valley was in town Friday. In
speaking of the possible damage to the
grain IN his district from recent rains,
he said there is some uneasiness among
farmers but no damage has yet been done
Preparations had been made for the be-
ginning of the threshing season last
Monday, but the showers prevented.
Mr.. Miller has 1900 bushels standing in
the shock, Dick Dunn has as much in
the same condition, and there are nu-s
merous other smaller crops. There was
considerable spring wheat soWn in the
valley, and this will be benefited by the
rain.
1t is not popularity known that fruit
acids are germicidal. The juice of lemon
and lime is deadly to cholera germs as
corrosive sublimate, or sulphur fumes,
or formaldehyde, or any other disenfect-
ant. 1t is so powerful germicide that
if the juice of one lemon or lime be
into glass of water, that is
then left standing ten or fifteen minutes,
the water will be disinfected; it makes
little difference where the water has been
obtained, or whether it has been boiled
or filtered. This is a fact worth knowing
for any one in the vacation season may
find himself under circumstances in
which 1t is impossible to get either
water of known wholesomeness or boiled
or filtered water. In such a case the
juice of lemon or lime will purify the
water perfectly.
Things have been buzzing very lively
in the new mechanical hall out at the
college during the week. The two new
teH-horse power motors that run the
of the woodwork and machine
rooms were put in motion Monday and
the several new machines of each de-
partment were tried, The machines are
all of the best and latest pattern and
their equal can be found only in the
leading machine shops of the country.
The college printing department is also
now stationed in its new quarters and
and the college printers are taking
advantage of their new surroundings.
The mechanical students of the OAC,
from. henceforth will have far better
than has ever been offered
before and the institution in general will
no longer take back place with any
similar school. o.. -#
The sawmill still continues to do
rushing business and many thousand
feet of lumber a:e turned cut each day.
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