The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1900-07-28
LOCAL LORE

Miss Jennie King of Occur d. Al
enc is the guest OF her uncle, John
Wells.
Miss Smell entertained number
of lady friends at Alpha Hall, Tues
day evening.
The Judge Moor house in this
city has been sold to J E Cronk. The
price paid was $500.
Mrs Florence Haskins arrived
Wednesday from Eureka Springs, Ar
kansas, in time to attend the funeral
of her mother.
Governor Geer and wife passed
through town Wednesday en- route
home from Newport. They went to
the seaside Monday.
President Catch went Wednes-
day to Salem, where he was one Of
the honorary pail bearers at the funer-
al of ex- May or G W Gray.
Recent letters from him to Will
liam Broders, announce that Ben
Woldt will leave Vienna, Austria, to-
morrow for the United States.
George B Ready and B Horn
er, with their families, left Thursday
for camping tip to the Alsea coun-
try. They expect to be absent a fort
night.
Wilson Wright, son Of Mrs
Wright of Corvallis, now holds a po-
sition as superintendent of quick
silver mine in Northern California,
and commands a large salary.
Moses Craig is spending his sum-
mer vacation at Orangeport, Niagara
county New York. He holds posi-
tion as horticalturist at the agricultur-
al college at Auburn, Alabama.
By express Wednesday, Hector
Brothers north Of town received a fine
Cotswold buck, lambed this spring.
The animal comes from the Ladd farm
and the price paid for him was $40.
He is registered.
The horns of big seven. point
buck are to be seen at "Our House"
The specimen Is one of the finest that
ever surmounted deer's head. The
animal was killed by Jesse Brown
near his home last Monday.
Jacksonville Times. July 24-Geo
A Houck, of Benton county, a broth
ther of Hon J J Houck, of Gold Hill,
arrived in this county last week with
over 1000 highbred Angoria goats,
which he purchased in California and
is driving home.
The hardwood factory at the saw
mill is now turning out telephone
cases for the Oregon Telephone COM
pany. The cases are a sample lot
made OF maple, balm, cottonwood, and
pine. A large amount Of additional
work of the sort is expected at the
factory.
In the absence of the pastor, Rev
Shafer will occupy the pulpit of the
Evangelical church tomorrow. Mr.
Shater is an excellent speaker and an
earnest worker. He is a graduate of
the Moody Bible Institute at Chicago.
Christian Endeavor meets as p m
at which time collection will be ta.
ken for the relief Of the sufferes CT the
famine districts of India. Come and
bring your Offering.
"A new window display at A Ho-
des' attracts much notice. It repre-
sents camping scene. The camp fire
with its overhanging kettle is there.
So also is the tent, the frees, the
log with the hatchet STUCK In it, the
empty cans, the egg shells and all
- han In 90 m in
the woods. The display is seasonable.
and the arrangement artistic. Glenn
Hodes is the decorator.
John Lenger's commission house
handled the r G Kiger crop of Early
Hale peaches. The yield of the orchard
was 100 boxes, and the whole product
has been picked and successfully mar
keted. Four hundred boxes were
sold in Corvallis and 700 went to
Portland. Mr. Lenger will also handle
Mr. Kiger's Early Crawfords, which
will be ready for picking in three
weeks. OF the latter there should
be 1000 boxes.
William Hamlin and family ar
rived Tuesday from Crawford, Neb-
raska. Ihey nave leas ed mouse,
and expect to spend the winter in
this city. They came by team, hav-
ing left their Nebraska home May TO-
tn. In the party were two families,
one of which settled in Grande Ronde,
while the other went into the
state of Washington. Mr. Hamlin was
formerly acquainted with Mr. McHenry
and Carpenter Campbell, in Nebraska.
Neil Newhouse arrived Wednes-
day from Eugene, where he has been
refitting the dryer in the prune orch
ard of Norris Humphrey. The mod
ell adopted in the new arrangement of
the dryer is the same as is in
use at the big prune orchard, which is
understood to be complete success
in curing fruit. In Mr. Humphreys
orchard the italian prunes are prac-
tically a total failure. OF Petites