Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-08-10
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Mrs. Riley Shelton and childre
of Scio, are visiting at the home {
: 7. w. Diiley.
James Hayes is having q grar
cry, l6 X "a feet, erected. Oh hi
place near Oak creek, 4
The Oregon Press Associatio
will meet this year at Ashland, Or
on September 19 and 20.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. RoLt. Huston ant
Mrs. F. A. johnson, left yesterda,
for a two weeks visit af Newport.
The Horner-Keady party re
turned yesterday from Alsea. Sew
eral fine deer were bagged by thes,
hunters.
| Mrs. Allan Wilson and family
left yesterday to join Mr.. Wilson a
Turner, where they will make theil
future home.
Roseburg is to have street fair
and Willie Schmidt, formerly OF
Corvallis is leading in the, voting
contest for king.
Mr.. Franklin, who has been Wis
iting relatives in Corvallis for the
past month, returned Tuesday to
Mt. Vernon, WASH, where he has
employment. &
The bond of A. J. Williams, as
guardian of the minor heir of J. w.
keyes, has been filed with the
county clerk, in the sum of $400.
N. P. Newton is surety.
One Of the neatest pieces of mar
BILE work done in this city in a long
time has just been finished ty John
Scrafford. 1t is a small monument
for Solomon Mulkey's wife and son.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. A. Hemphill
started for the coast yesterday
morning. They drove over and
will remain for an indefinite period.
D. D. Berman is in" charge of the
harness shop during Mr.. Hemhill's
absence.
Joseph Yates reports that his
crop of grain just threshed, went
fifteen bushels per acre. Twenty
four bushels by measurement
weighed something over % bushels,
which Mr.. Yates think is remark
ably good for this season. -.
A small pamphlet, "Some Obser-
vations on Apple Tree Anthacnose,"
by Professor Cordley, has just been
issued. 1t treats of the fungas di-
sease locally known as "canker,"
"dead spot" or "black spot" and
matter of much inte;-
est to orchardists.
Prof. Chas. L. Johnson is now
on Blue river, in Lane
county. 81 am having great sport
here" he writes, fishing for red
sides 1 have caught some beau
ties and there are plenty more finer
ones waiting for a more skillful
fisherman to come along,
Prof. E. C. Hayward, Prof. Dan
Pritchard and daughter, and Els
worth Erwin formed bicycle par
5y who left on their wheels for
Portland yesterday morning. Prof
Hayward will ride his wheel to Ia
coma, and take the steamer from
there to Victoria, B. c. where he
will visit relatives.
There is now only about $4,000
lue on the delinquent tax list, and
81 600 of this amount is the tax on
The Coe lands and other property
IF like character, to which charges
attach as lien and must be paid
before good title can be given to the
lands. Here is an evidence of the
prosperity of the people of Benton
county.
In letter received from Henry
Allen the first of the week, the
writer says that the Corvallis. con-
;ingent in Washington have aver
aged a loss of fifteen pounds. apiece
n flesh, due to hot weather. The
heat is less intense now and all are
N g bod health. Henry was pro-
noted soon after beginning work in
she census department and the re-
port that John Pipes was the first
Oregon boy to receive this recogni-
ion is an error. The temporary
clerks engaged in the census work
will be discharged in December,
but those from Corvallis will be
for two years. .
A Monroe dispatch saws: The
new mail route between this point
and Corvallis will soon be estab-
ished. Papers to that effect have
been received here from the depart
ment, and the line will begin busi-
ness about October l. Mail from
this place to the county seat has
heretofore gone II miles by stage
southeast to Junction City, thence
by rail to Albany, changed to
another line at that city, and then
sent by the Corvallis & Eastern to
Corvallis. BY the new arrange
ment the distance is only Is miles
all told. This plan does not affect
the daily line between here and
Junction City.
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