Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-10

! Joe Bergin is spending a few day
: IN Corvallis after weeks visit il
Portland.
Charley Moore and wife, of Port
land, have been visiting friends ano
relatives in this city during tht
past week or two.
Sundays Portland Telegram con
tains very fair half-tone of Miss
Leona Smith, Corvallis Goddess o.
Liberty during the late celebration
Mrs. E. Starr and Mrs. Oscar
Starr, mother and sister in-law o1
Mrs. o. V. Hurt, arrived from Port.
land Saturday for couple of weeks
visit.
Mrs. H. Watkins, who has been
visiting relatives in this city dur.
ing the past few weeks, departed
Monday for her home in Prescott,
Washington.
Miss Jennie Montgomery, of Kirk
wood, ILL.,, arrived in Corvallis Sat-
urday evening and will visit for a
couple of months with her cousin,
Miss Lillian Glass.
Mrs. Lola Wigle, nee Wilkins, a
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. S. N.
Wilkins, arrived in this city, July
3rd, from her home in Prinesyille
and will visit here during the sum-
mer.
Information reached Corvallis a
couple of days ago to the effect that
Asa Tunnecliffe, now the telegraph
operator at Baker City, recently be-
came daddy" of one the finest boys
ever born. -
Joseph Biber returned to Corval-
lis, Monday, after a weeks absence
in Portland and vicinity. While
coasting on a bicycle, Sunday, he
had the misfortune to fall and bad
ly sprain his right arm.
The remodeling and repainting of
the Benton County FIGURING Mills
is now in progress. The new ma
chinery that is to be put in for in
creasing the output of the mill was
expected to arrive on last nights
freight.
The work of taking up the re-
mainder of the street car track was
commenced again yesterday NOM
ing and it is hoped that the rain
will not interrupt proceedings this
time. This old track was becoming
quite an eye-sore.
In letter to relatives, James S.
Booth, who is now at Nome, states
that the prospects up there are far
from encouraging. Everything has
been exaggerated and the thous-
ands of people who are up there
cannot make expenses. Men with
picks and shovels, rockers, sluices
and all sorts of gold-saving ma
chimes are working day and night.
There being no returns for this out
lay of both labor and money, the
men are becoming more and more
discouraged every day. The out
look is certainly "blue" enough.
Colonel HI. E. Dosch, secretary of
the state board of horticulture, says:
Eastern Oregon will have the
largest fruit yield ever harvested
in that section, and the apple crop
will lie especially large all over the
state. The peaches in Southern
Oregon and the Fellenberg prunes
throughout the Willamette valley
are the only fruits which have been
injured primarily by frosts. This
means loss of about 80 carloads
of peaches to Southern Oregon, and
possibly 400 carloads of Feiienberg
prunes to the Willamette valley.
The experiences of Johnny Pipes,
of Portland, son of Hon. NJ L.
Pipes, formerly of this city, have
had quite romantic turn. It
seems that he had formed an at
tachment for Miss Susie Fennel. of
and wished to wed her,
but his parents objected seriously |
and matters became quite compli-
Gated. Johnny was fortunate
enough to secure position in the
census bureau at Washington re-
Gently and shortly after his arrival
there he sent for Miss Fennel and
on her arrival in Washington they
were married. The bride is spoken
of as a most estimable young lady. |