Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-01

. her son, Jesse Spencer, and family.
Mrs. Nelms and daughterj Celia, re-
turned from Newport on Tuesday after
an cutting at Nye creek of a couple of
weeks.
Miss Francis Harris, former teacher
of the Corvallis public schools, but now
of Portland, is visiting in Corvallis, the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Callahan.
I Joshua Mason, who has been very ill
for several days In the past, is not i'm
proved in his condition. Mrs. McCor-
mick, Of Brownsville, the sister OF the
sick man is at his bedside.
Quite Corvallis crowd of ladies and
gentlemen went out to the Granger
school house"on Tuesday night to attend
school entertainment, the Corvallis
delegation furnishing the program.
# z. J..Lea returned on Monday from
the East. He has been attending
the summer school at Harvard. During
his trip Mr.. Lea visited New York City,
Niagara Falls and other noted eastern
scenes.
i Senator John D. DAILY left Tuesday for
a months visit III San Francisco. This
was his home in t'the days of 49, and
he Will take gresiE ssdelight:in viewing old
land marks and renewing old acquaint-
ances. ::
The thanks.of the editor, Office force
and tlTe-devil care due Mr.. ?; W. john
son for as fne lot of trout as we ever
Topped our lip over. We say
''due'' advisedly; they can never be paidtf
Printers, like Hamlet, ate even poor in
| tha9hs. 5fss :. 80: ~.
SClaud Riddle; member of the I'm
IoN-GAzErrE force left Tuesday for his
home in Riddles, Oregon, for a vacation
of couple of weeks MIR. Riddle is, pre-
pairing to begin the publication. OF the
Mite once sagain. The introductory
number will be issued in about three
weeks. -. 49,.
Miss Effie Berthold leaves next .satur-
day for Weiser, Idaho, where she will be
married to Mr., John Letter. Monday.
Immediately. after. the ceremony, the
couple will leave for short visit at Salt
Lake city. There future home will be at.
Spokane, Wash, where Miss Berthold.
wasf telegraph operator for long time.
Mr.. Letter is wealthy mine owner of
the Buffalo Hump country.
We stated some time ago that an effort
was being made% by the K. of P. of this
city to have the body of Lyman Kelsay,.
who died at Manila, May Goth, last,
brought here for burial a. letter from
Hon. Tom. Tongue relative to the matter
states that no bodies will be brought
over until winter, but Immediately upon
the arrival of Lyman's remains in San
Francisco they will be sent to Corvallis.
w: A. Cole, Il representative of the
Pacific Monthly, of Portland, was iii the
city on Tuesday working in the Inter
est of the new Portland magazine. The
Pacific Monthly has now appeared in its
tenth nunibefj spd:iihas SO far: met the
heartfest approval of its patrons. Ore
gon has writefs- enough apd facilities
enough for good magazine, and the
Pacific Monthly is deserving Of all the
!s support given it.
Aslive grasshopper will eat dead |
A Missouri faamer mixed
Paris green and bran together and let a |.
grasshopper eat it. Twenty ate him up.
Four hundred ate those 20,
and they pied. Eight thousand ate
those four hundrsd, !, and: they died. A
hundred and sixty THOUSAND ate those
S000,. >and died; and the farmer was
troubled no more. In its-fight from
the Mississippi valley, the name of the
statistieian of this story has become
separated from his figures, but the fact
that the incident occurred in Missouri
is regarded asievidence: of its possibility.
-.
Ever since Tuesday afternoon the nu-
merous threshing machines of the neigh
borhood have been humming most in-
in their work of getting the
grain threshed' that was DELAYED by the
rains. The weather began to clear on
Sunday morning and by sunset of that
day the north wind that had been blow
ing for SO hours had driven the last of
scattered clouds far away over the hori-
zon. There is no doubt but that excel
lent weather will be given US during the
remaining days of harvest time. Inves-
tigation has proved that but little dam
age was done the wheat-the greater
damage being done in those cases where
farmers were careless in their methods of :.
shocking. The wheat is of course. dam
aged some but nothing like as everyone
had supposed it ould be.
The death of Miss Eleanor jeanette .
eldest daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Peter Gellatly, occurred at her home
four miles west of Corvallis, Sunday
morning, Aug. 2S,5 at 1890 o'clock
Twelve years ago she suffered an attack
OF typhoid fever, and since that time her
health has gradually failed, resulting in
her death. Elleanor Jeanette Gellatly
was born September 6, 1876. She has
borne with Christians fortitude her long
years Of suffering and goes to the life be-
yond beloved by all who knew her. The
funeral OCCURRED Tuesday morning at the
family residence. Rev. G. c. Connor
officiating. A large number of friends
followed the remains to the Newton
cemetery, where interment was made.
The family has the sympathy of the en-
tire community in their bereavement.
Justice E. R. Bryson and Atty Julian
McFadden have been doing the farmer
act this week, being of the opinion that
farming is more lucrative than lawyering
after all. Some weeks ago Jesse Brown
sold his crop of wheat and oats to Mr..