Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-12-08
LOCAL NEWS.

Wheat remains at A cents.
:: The election that waxed SO warmly il
Albany resulted in republican victory
Judge Nc Fadden has been in Salem
this week attending court in the capita
city.
Martha and Mrs. II. F. Fischer re
turned 10 their home in this city, from
Chicago on Monday.
Mrs. Geo Webber, of Corvallis, is th'
guest OF Mrs. Slaytoa, in the Titus build
ing.-Eugene Register.
Among the improvements being made
in town is the erection of q new Sidewalk
on the street by the John Scraford resi-.
dence.
On the 18th of this month, President
Newland, of the Pacific University will
deliver lecture at the college chapel,
on the su bject, travels in Italy"
They had city election at Pbilsmath
Monday. DIR. R. o. Logan was elected
mayor. W. H. Boles recorder, E. A. Tay'
lor marshall. aud G. W. Davis treasurer.
Potatoes are. now selling at 40 cents
per bushel in the Corvallis market, aud
owing to the large yield that the potato
men raised, the market is quite well
supplied and chances for rise in price
Is no more likely than decline.
Mrs. s. N.::Wilkins. of Corvallis, is here
for the purpose of organizing lodge Of
Rebekahs, and all persons who have
signed the application are requested to
meet at the hall next Monday evening at
Z o'clock for the purpose of organization
-Prineville Review.
The bond of Willard Price as admins
traitor in the estate of the late Michael
McGrath, the nliser who died in Kings
Valley two weeks ago, has been filed in
the probate court. The estate includes
$500 in cash besides some real estate.
The appraisers appointed are w. A..
Wells and Richard Graham.
LII. and Z. FL. Taylor returned home
from Portland on Monday, where they
had been to attend the funeral of
their sister Mrs. Lesh. The funeral oc-
Cured in the Metropolis on Sunday.
Several Corvallis people, old friends Of
the deceased were present to witness the
last sad rites performed.
During the month of November there
was an average precipitation OF 80 in
ches of rain over the Willamette valley.
This is about one-fifth our annual rain
fall, which either means that we are to
haye some wet weather this winter or
that a great part of our winters rain has
already fallen. 1t Is an uncommon thing
to have our streams and rivers swollen to
such an extent and at SO early date as
they have been this season.
John w. White, representing the Polk
county Grange was in Corvallis Tuesday
in the interest of the Grangers. His
business here was to confer with the
local Grange and make arrangements for
meeting in the near future for the pur-
pose of considering the proposition of
annexing the insurance benefit to the
local Grange. This organization offers
to furnish life insurance to its members
at a low rate assessment, and this feature
of the Grange is becoming as prominent
and popular as the many others.
During the wiutry season, it is well to
know the language Of umbrellas. 'To
place your umbrella in a rack indicates
that it is about to change owners An
umbrella carried over the woman, the
man getting nothing but the drippings of
the rain, signifies courtship. When the
man has the umbrella and the woman
the drippings 1t signifies marriage. To
carry it at an angle under your arm sig
mites that az eye is to be lost by the
man who follows. To put a. cotton UNI
brella by the side of nice silk one sig
niies exchange is no norobbery.' To lend
an umbrella signifies T am fool To.
carry an open umbrella just high enough
to tear out mems eyes and knock off mems
hats signifies 81 am woman"
Winter weather keeps many OF the
country people from the entertainments
afforded those in the city yet 1t does not
prevent the country people from meeting
together in grand jubilee and spending
an evening of merriment. Out on the
McBee farm, just southwest of Corvallis
on last Friday night. at the farm home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Stovall, some forty peo-
pie congregated and enjoyed one of those
genuine socials the country people know
80 well how to prepare and appreciate.
The rooms were gaily decorated for the
occasion with beauties from the woods
and fields, There was music, games and
dancing, and not uutil one O'Clock did
the merry-makers depart for their
several homes in the vicinity.
An exchange wisely says that the Will
lamette valley farmers do not have to de-
pend on wheat and hops for living
No other section of the West can pro-
duce such diversity Of crops as can be
grown on Willamette soil and as the
years 60 by there will be constant in
crease in the variety OF products coming
up to market from the valley. Neither
wheat nor hops will be grown in less
quantities than at the present time but
the ever increasing acreage of tillable
soil will blossom with other gifts from
the bounteous hand of nature that will
bring back to the producer from profit
able market the golden twenties as hls-
Se0UA9OneGN Aapyepsrogs soil calls
for greater diversity OF production and
the future thrift of Willamette farmers
will be in answer to the call.