Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-22
LOCAL NEWS.

Mrs. Verna Brewer, nee Ready
of Portland, is visiting relatives in
this city.
Prof. Geo. Coo.e and wife left
Wednesday for months visit al
Santa Barbara, California.
Miss Lulu Robertson, Of McMinn-
Vile, is visiting at Alpha Hall, the
guest of Miss Dora Hodges.
Miss Margaret Cundiff, of Albany.
has been the guest of Mrs. Webber
and family during commencement
The sucker crop never fails-a
new one is born every minute, re-
marks an exchange; and the old
one can be summer fallowed.
Joseph H. Wilson's new resi-.
dence on Railway street is nearing
completion, and when done it will
be very tastily and we'll arranged
cottage.
Miss Nellie Hogue, who recently
returned from Stanford University,
lis visiting at the home of Mrs.
.Greffoz in this city during COM
mencement.
John Smith is having a sidewalk
plrced along the north side of his
town property. Every improve
ment of this nature is of great bene-
= fit to every citizen Of Corvallis.
! Work is progressing rapidly on
: the dwelling of Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar
, Healy. In short time it will have
been remodeled into two-story
. structure of considerable magnitude.
Clarence Chapman, whose genial
nature has for a long time been an
attraction at Hodes & Halls res
tlurant, has resigned his position.
III health was his reason for the
act.
Miss Estella Case. Of Portland,
who has been attending the Sisters
school commencement in this city,
went over to Corvallis to attend the
GA c graduating exercises.-Her-
aid.
Miss Lettie Wicks left yesterday
for California, where she will visit
till the opening of the public school
this fall when che will return to re-
sumo her duties as teacher in this
institution.
Mr.. Arch Kruse, a one-time
o A C student and member of
the champion football team of '97,
now leading hardware merchant
of Marshfield, has been spending
the week II. Corvallis.
The annual catalogue of the Ore
gon Agricultural College for 1899
1900 has just left the hands of the
college printer. 1t contains 124
pages of printed matter, and is
neatly and attractively printed.
The McMinnville Transcript says
the game of ball played in that city,
Sunday, by McMinnville and Cor
wallis teams was the best game of
the season. There were twelve
shut outs in the eight and cne-half
innings played.
"A double wedding was performed
by Horace Underhill, J. p, at his
residence at Summit, Oregon, June
18th. The happy couples we're Mr..
Warren Norton and Miss Annie
Mulkey, and Mr.. Bradley Mulkey
and Miss matilda Johnson, all of
Blodgett, Oregon.
Sam T. Shaw, the popular roper
toire actor-manager, we'll known by
all Corvallis theatre goers, is
very i'll with nervous prostration
and terrible affliction of the eyes
at his home in Iowa. Our people
will, therefore, be denied the pleas
ure of hearing his excellent COM
psny the coming season.
'lhe present rain, While a trIf1e
unreasonable, is putting dollars in
the pockets of Willamette Valley
farmers. The fall sown wheat will
yield short crop, but these show
ers are of vast benefit to late spring
grain. Little hay has been cut, and
only clover hay has maturel, so
small damage to the crop will re-
suit.
Rev. L. Nj. Boozer is at Dallas
attending the District Bible Confer
ence and campmeeting of the United
Evangelical church, in session at
that place from June Goth to the
28th. There will be no preaching
service at the Evangelical church
Sunday. There will be Sunday
school and the Christian EndeaYor