Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-15

| Harrisburg, Saturday, on a visit.
Attorney B. F. Jones went out to
1 Corvallis Tuesday to visit his
brother before his departure for
Cape Nome.-Lincoln Leader.
All subscribers for the New Voice
are requested to procure tickets of
E. F. Bryant for John G. Woolley's
| great temperance lecture, which
will be delivered on May 29th. Do
not delay.
w. D. Kay, of Monroe, is re-
ported to be in critical condition
and fears of his death are enter
tanned. Mr.. Kay recently had a bad
attack of grippe and is now suffer-
ing from relapse.
The U. of O. athletes will meet
the U. of W. boys at Seattle next
Saturday in an interstate field meet.
This is the same aggregation from
the U. of o. which O. A. G.. will
measure strength with at Salem,
June 4th.
Chief Flett has been notified by
DR.. Daniels, physician in charge at
Siletz, to keep sharp eye out for
one Roy Butterfeld, an Indian who
recently escaped from the agency
Jail and is believed to be in this
vicinity.
The annual convention of the
Benton county Sunday School AS
sociation will be held at Philomath
June 2nd and 3rd. A program
which has reached our desk indi-
Gates that the sessions will be in
teresting and profitable.
Manager Strong, of the Corvallis
sawmill, returned Thursday from a
trip up the Mckenzie. While there
he purchased of Mr. Deadman i'm
the neighborhood of 100000 feet of
yellow fir logs. These will be RATED
down with Spaulding Bros drive
about June 10th.
Hon. w. L. Well, present county
Judge of of Polk county, and candi--
date on the republican ticket for
joint representative of Polk and
Lincoln counties, was in Corvallis,
Friday. Mr.. Wells is considered
the most popular man in his home
county, and his election is generally
admitted.
In the contest of attendance be-
tween the different schools of the
county for the month of April, six
schools tied with 100 per cent. The
banner will therefore remain in the
Supt.'s Office so that no partiality
may be shown to any school. Each
school received certificate of at
tendance and on winning three will
be entitled to county roll of honor,
nicely framed. The following are
the districts having perfect attend
ance last month: SO, S5, 7, "a, &c
and 36. No. 45 had 99.5 per cent,
and No 12, SO per cent
Quite a number of our local
singers were interested in the rem
dition of Haydn's "Creation" Fri
day night at Salem and went down
on the morning of the event on the
steamer Ruth. Those of Corvallis
who took part in the festival were:
Miss Ellen Chamberlain, Mrs E R
Lake, Mrs M S Woodcock, Mrs A
B Cordley, Mrs Mary Bryson, Miss
Dorothea Nash; Messrs John Full
ton, D W Pritchard, B w johnson,
and number of singers from the
o A C. The singers of this city,
who participated in the rendition
of the Creation" acquitted them
selves in a most creditsble manner.
The jubilee will be held in Albany
next year.
Ex-Governor John Whitaker,
the first governor of the state of
Oregon recently celebrated his sOth
birthday at his home in Eugene.
About three years ago the ex-gov-
ernor suffered a stroke of paralysis
and the effects of the attack are
yet discernable, but his general
health is now very good. The old
governor is very glad to see all of
his friends and cherishes kind
feeling for them all. He has. even
had cause to be proud of his ad
ministration of the affairs of a
state that is today, among tn most
important states of the Union; and
that he enjoys the respect of the
people is in itself blessing highly
priced by the old governor.