Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-05
LOCAL NEWS.

LOVRl NLUSs
Mrs. e. A. Helm went to Albany
Wednesday to visit friends.
Carl Michaux, son Of DR.. Mi
chaux, of McMinnville, arrived
during the week to attend the
OAC.
Underwood & Kerr have secured
the contract for painting tbs tank
of the Coz wallis Water Works. This
ii getting pretty high up.
Miss Myrtle Shonkwiler, who
has visited friends in this city for
the past few weeks, returned to her
hone in Salem, yesterday.
Mrs. M. NJ. Davis came out from
the bay, Tuesday, TO attend the
Eastern Star function on that even
ing. She returned home Wednes-
day.
Attorney II. C. Watson, Of AL.
bany, was in Corvallis on legal
business. On his return he was
accompanied by Attorney w. e.
Yates, of this city.
A marked copy of the Oregon
weekly has reached our desk. This
is the paper published by the stu
dents Of the q of o and is fully up
10 the standard of the former vol
urne.
Hunters should remember when
they 60 after China pheasants that
1t is unlawful to kill more than fif-
teen birds at one outing. It is
only on EXCEPTIONAL occasions that
caution is necessary.
Lawrence Harrisburg, the famous
football player of Berkeley, Calf,
has arrived in Eugene, and will
be coach Of the varsity eleven this
year. He will have first. .class tim
Der TO work with.
Work on the Baptist church is
not yet finished, but regular SER
vices will be held on Sunday.
Grand Sunday School rally at 10
q. M; preaching at IL q. m. and
at 7:30 p. M; B. Y. P. U. at $50
Pm. All heartily welcome.
Rev. G. G.. Polling, presiding elder
of the United Evangelical church,
will preach at the following pisces:
Alexander school house, Kings Vail
ley, Saturday, At 7.30 p. m.;; Biod.
gstt,s Sunday, at l. q. M; Summit,
Sunday, $3.50 p. M, and at Tum
Tum at 1880 p. m. Sunday. ALI
are welcome.
The o A C band is now going
through series Of rehearsals, with
Ernest Redd as band master. There
is some very crsditable new timber
in the band this year and the boys
expect to maintain a good organiza-
ton. Among other things, they
are to be supplied with a tuba, Of
G.. G. Conn manufacture.
Those farmers who think that
college professors don't know any
thing about work had q good oppor-
tunity to get more correct opin-
ion on the subject by watching
Professor Kent at work ia the dairy
building at the State Fair. Any
farmer who can hold his own with
Prof Kent through q long days
work has reason 70 rejoice in his
strength and staying ability.-Ore-
goa Agriculturist.
The general opinion is that the
Mongolian pheasant is wild and
untAmeable, but according to the
Eugene Register it appears that
there are exceptions now and then.
It says: Yesterday afternoon Mrs.
Ray Delano heard a noise on her
porch and opening the door found a
China pheasant making an effort to
get into the house. She bid il wei.
come and the bird ia quite at ho me
in its new environment. It is
wild bird and is evidently seeking
safety.
Hon. H. B. Miller has written to
Colonel Dosch from Shanghai, and
has the following to say of the
peaches grown in that part of the
world: Peaches are quite plenti-
full, and fairly good if picked when
ripe. The Chinese don't realize
the difference between ripe and
green fruit, and seem to eat the
hard, green fruit with the same
relish they do ripe, hence most of
the fruit is unfit 10 eat, being many
times only half grown. Good
peaches could be produced here,
but the peach worm is very bad,
and in three-fourths of the peaches.
It is a worm that operates exactly
like the Goblin moth, and looks
like 1t, but is some smaller. It
eats into the peach anywhere and
spells the fruit, doing more dam
age to the fruit than the Goblin
moth does to the apple. So far as
I can learn, nothing is done to de-
stroy or check them.