Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-01

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hot cakes the past few days. Ovei
$50 have now been issued.
The steamer Eugene has been re-
modelled and will be used as a stern
wheel barge below Portland.
Attorney w. E. Yates received q
business call to Portland Saturday
He is expected home today.
Tommy Jones is having his resi-
dence. just south of the public
school, newly painted and other
wise impr owed.
Dilly, the bicycle man, has dis
posed of eight of the ten wheels he
manufactured last winter. He says
that he will place twenty-five on the
market next year.
A game of basket ball between
the ladies of the O A G and Port
land Y W c A for the championship
of the state, will be played at the
college armory May 4th.
Cal. Thrasher, of this city, has
been appointed deputy head coun-
Gil of the order of Modern Woodmen,
vice C A. Mcknight, OF Lebanon,
resigned. Last week Mr. Thrasher
organized lodge at McClay:
1t is said that on the ranch of
James Wilkinson, about - miles
south of town, the petite prunes
have not suffered any, and that
Italians have not been SO badly
damaged as was at one time feared.
A baseball game between picked
mines from Philomath and this city
occurred at former place Saturday.
The result was a victory for. tue
Corvallis boys by score of II to -.
The game was exciting and we'll
played.
Hon. Thomas Kay, manager of
the Salem Woolen Mills, and the
leading manufacturer of woolens
on the coast, died at st. Vincent's
hospital, Portland, last Friday
evening after an illness of several
months.
Night Officer Wells wishes us to
call the attention of bieyclists to
the ordinance making it a misde
meanor for wheelmen to ride any
where within the limits of the city
of Corvallis, without a lantern,
after dark.
John Lenger's venture in the
poultry business has been SO sue
-cessful, that he has taken it up on
a larger scale. He has fitted up a
poultry and feed store two doors
south of Graham & Wortham's
drugstore and will handle poultry
and eggs, bran, shorts, flour ETC.,
and on certain days will have fish,
CLANS and crabs for SALE This is
enterprise and should be encouraged.
A successful operation was per-
formed upon Ms. John Whitaker
at St. Vincent's hospital, Portland,
last Friday. For the last two years
large abcess in her side has caused
her much pain and recently her
jfe has been despaired of, but ad-
vices from her bedside now state
that prospects of her perfect re-
covery are most hopeful. Her hus-
band and daughter, Maggie, are with
her.
Mr.. M. B. Bump, late of Benton
county, and young attorney ol
excellent preparation, has nailed
up his shingle in Hillsboro, says the
Independent, and will practice in
all the courts of the county. Be-
sides being an addition to the bar
he will be an aquisition to society
While in school and while reading
law he studied music for a recrea-
tion and comes out a good cornet
player.
Thirteen young lalies and two
young men went to Corvallis last
, night to attend the basket bal
game between the @ A G girls arc
the girls Of Ohemawa: GA G al
usual won 81 to 4, playing beau
tiful game. Their basket throwel
: is a marvel. The Indian girls die
nearly as good field work. They
were chaperoned by Miss Milli
Dohse, a resident Of Albany at on
.time.-Albany Democrat.
Following are the various repub
lican precinct committeeman of thi
county: Corvallis No 1, o With
am; Corvallis No 2, George Eglin
Corvallis No 3, A Rennie; Corvalli
30 4, Thos Gooper; Philomath,
q Itogg IN; Bellfountain, HI Bris
tow; Monroe, D B Farley; Summit
R Mcfarland; Soap Creek, G l
Moor; Blodgett, G III Wamsley
Kings Valley, Lloyd Chenoweth
Fairmount, j Conklin; Willamette
Fred Whitby; Alsea, S N Warfeld
Wren, Chas King.