Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-11-03

i The usual services will be held OF the
Christian church next Sunday, nlornin2
and evening.
Harry Miller is engineer at the electric
light plant, in the absence of Ed Thrift,
who is taking months vacation.
Ladies remember Nolan & Callahan's
shoe department is thoroughly equipped
for Fall and Winter shoe campaign.
Rev. J. L. Hershner returned Saturday
to his home at Hood River, after few
days visit with relatives in this city.
A. B, Miller, who has been confined to
the house since June 23rd as the result
of an operation performed on his foot is
again able to be up town on crutches.
Rev! Copeland, of Salem. lecturer of
note, will deliver an address at the col
lege chapel, November 10th. Admission
will be free, and all are cordially in
/ vited.
The ladies OF the M. E. church will
reopen their Saturday market at J. D..
Mann's store next Saturday afternoon.
Come and secure your Sunday dinner at
reasonable rates.
Mr.. Wilson, father of our commission
merchant, after spending the summer in
Corvallis, has returned to his home in
Iowa via San Francisco, where he will
meet his SON who is first cook on the
transport Ohio.
ALBANY is still in darkness, no agree
ment having been made for the renewal
of the electric light contract for street
purposes. The city council peremptorily
ordered the lights shut off, and has made
no efforts to make terms for new con-
tract.
At the brides grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Rses, who reside in this city, Miss
Stella Cain and Mr.. J. G. Feichter were,
married on Sunday last at 10 am. The
bride is from Dusty, the groom from In
avale, both are respected apd industrious
people and they have the we'll wishes of
their several friends in Corvallis.
Potato digging has occupied the atten-
ton of 'spud raisers" in the Corvallis
vicinity of late, and the yield this year
is unusually good. Asmall square ofland
planted in potatoes and owned by VIM.
Locke, near Mountain View, yielded 200
bushels to the acre. The potatoes are
large fellows and are excellent samples
of what Oregon soil can produce.
Under the new road law the county
courts will re-arrange the road districts
of the county, SO that they will conform
with the voting districts, and every year
there after make such changes as will be
deemed necessary. In June there shall
be elected supervisors for each district,
who shall hold his Office for two years.
If he refuses to accept the office after
being elected he shall be fined $25. The
county court shall fill all vacancies.
He was from the country, not SO very
old, and had been married but few
years possibly. Altogether he had the
appearance of one who had been buncoed
SO to speak. He entered the U. g. office
sauntered up to the mau at the desk.
whats yer cherges on birth notise? ?"
Nothing, my kind SIR was the answer.
Wa-al, say now younker, we've got a
whollipin' boy out to our place. The |
fact is heralded, another star shines over |
Willamette's Bethlehem, and we wish
the whole world TO take notice.
Ninety thousand dollars will be paid |
this season to those who cultivate the |
2 300 acres of sugar beets in the valleys,
says the La Grande Chronicle This is
based on the estimate, given by the fac
tory people, of yield of 20 900 tons at an
average of $3.50 per ton. As whole
possibly the beet growers will not make
a greater profit than the wheat growers.
However, this season places the success
iul growing of beets beyond the expert
mental stage, and from this on beets will
be one of our'chief products.
During the past week We have had
some genuine webfoot fog not that thin.
pale stuff that hangs sickly around in the
air in such manner as to make one
wish it would either rain or clear up, but
Webfoot fog is fog. 1t is that kind of
material which possesses the power to
creep into any crevice that will hold
grain of sand; and below town in the
river bottoms it rushes iRto the rooms
when the doors are opened and the
housewife has to wrap the thick stuff a.
round broonstick and carry it out of
the house in that manner. 1t is a slow
process but the only sure one in the end.
But then our afternoons have been
beautiful and we therefore have no coma
plant to make.
In June of hext year the people of the
United States will be counted for the
twelfth time since the establishment of
our government. It will require about
fifty thousand enumerators to take the
census, and their work must be finished
in one months time, or by the first week
in July, 1900. That means that about
seventy-fve million people must be re-
corded in thirtv days, or at the rate of two
and a half million day. The rate will
beeyen greater than this, however, for
in towns and cities of eight thousand in
habitants the enumeration must be COM
pleted within two weeks. The enumer-
ators will not be permitted to have any
assistance in the work it must be done |
by them in person, except in such Sec
tions of the country as con tain great
many foreigners, where the employment
of Interpreters will be allowed, as other
wise it would be next to impossible to
secure the proper data. The enumera-
tors will be paid for the services in ac-