Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-05
Mr. Will Hodes, of Eugene, paid
Corvallis business visit this week.

J. H. Gallagher, a member o
last years graduating class of O
c, visited his alma mater this week
The weather permitting, DR.
Thompson will preach at Oal
Ridge Presbyterian church Sabbath
afternoon at o'clock.
/ Revival service. every night mex
week in the Evangelical church.
Rev. G. L. Lowell, of Independence,
| will be present to assist.
I Mrs. Telt Burnett and son, Leo
arrived home Wednesday from an
extended visit with relatives il
Baker City and vicinity.
| According TO the latest repa,t
Mrs. J. F. Steiwer, who has been
seriously i'll at her home in Jeffer.
son, is improving rapidly.
| 1t gives as much pleasure te
state that Mr.. L. G. Kline, who has
been seriously i'll for the past sew
eral weeks, is much improved.
| S. L. Kline shipped a carload OF
Cascara bark to New York, Tues
day. It came from Alsea and
points along the line of the c. & E.
Regular Sunday service in the
United Evangelical church morning
and evening. Rey. L. M. Boozer
viii preach. A cordial invitation
to all.
Fred Kruse, who was compelled
by sickness to return from New
York, where he had gone to enter
Cornell, will visit In Corvallis un-
til Monday.
A couple of maple trees standing
on the north side of the Occidental
hotel have recently been pruned
down to q large extent. The i'm
provement is quite noticeable.
J. R. scrafford and wife left yes
terday for Elk City, whore they
will remain for a week or more.
John has some stone work over
there that he is obliged to complete.
A reception will be given by AL
pha Rebekah lodge in their hall
this evening at $50 o'clock, in hon.
or of Mesdames Shaw and Smith
who soon take their departure from
Corvallis.
Chas. Mcknight, q former popu-
lar student of the o A G, is visiting
with friends in this city on his way
home from Salem, whore he has
been taking an examination to be
admitted to the bar. He will prac-
tice law at Marshfield.
The grand lodge of Oregon
Knights Of Pythias will convene in
Astoria next Tuesday, for three
days session. Robert Johnson and
B. w. johnson are delegates from
the lodge in this city. They will
start for Astoria, Monday.
While Oscar Dodge was taking
his brother, Sans, large l0-horse
power Buffalo Pitt traction engine
along the road just beyond Menroe
last Tuesday, the machine pitched
over a five foot embankment, and
at last accounts had not been right,
ed.
Services at the Presbyterian
church next Sabbath as follows:
So bbath school at 10 .. ~; public
Worship at II q. m. and 7:30 p. m..
Preaching by the pastor. Y PSC
e at $50 p. m. A very kind vel
come 10 extended to all; seats ss-.
pecially for students.
DR.. NJ. M. Davis expects to move
his family out from the bay with q,
view to wintering in Corvallis. just
when he will make this move 10 not
determined, 40 "Doc" is interested
in the salmon fishing industry at
Yaquina, aud does not care to leave
there before the close Of the season.
During the week G. K. Spaulding
has been moving his logging outfit
from the Santiam TO the Luckia-
mute. Mr.. Spaulding has disoon.
tinued operations on North Santiam
for this season. Two carloads of.
logging outfit and q force Of twenty
men were brought down by the c.
& E., Tuesday.
DR.. Withycombe gives as the
cause of the partial failure cf crop
the large amount Of rain which fell
during the spring, and the manner
in which IL fell. He says that the
land was packed 80 hard that it.
was impossible TO receive proper
nourishment, and cites the fact that
the more finely pulvsrized the soil
of the summer fallow last fall, the
harder the ground was packed and
the peorer the crop. Thee is no
doubt but that it was due to some
climatic influence.
Robert Lanka is once more en-
rolled on the books at the O A @.
As a pencil artist he has an en-.
viabls reputation and some Of his
work in designing is worthy of
more than ordinary mention. Dur
ing the Philippine campaign he was
a member Of the corps of engin GERS
Of the Second Oregon Volunteers,