Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-08-31
LOCAL NEWS.

Prof. McElfresh is home from hi
outing at the coast.
President Catch left Tuesday fol
a visit to Portland and Seattle.
Prof. Cordley is on a tour Of hor-
ticultural investigation in Coo
county.
Prof. I. NJ. Glen and wife, O
Eugene, are visiting at the home O
E. R. Bryson.
People of weak lungs should g
to Bert Barnhart. He has a lung
tester of the latest patent.
Miss Mamie Cauthorn returned
last week from San Francisco
where she had been for pianaforte
instruction.
Charley Heckart wore the "star'
Tuesday night during the absence
of C. B. Wells, who was on visit
to relatives in the southern part ei
the county.
Geo. Bowers and Geo. L. Thomp-
son have purchased the Combina'
ton barber shop at Albany. This
shop runs six chairs, and is up-to
date in every particular.
Mrs. S. L. Henderson and aunt,
Mrs. Harriet Howe, tvok the train
for Wren Wednesday. They will
visit few days with Mrs. James
Rol inson of that place.
The marriage of Mr.. Lee Bell
and Miss Dora Terry occurred at
Mt. Tabor, East Portland, last
week. Mr.. Bell is son of J. R. N.
Bell, and lassed his boyhood days
in Corvallis.
Monday, Eddie, the son of Mr..
C. C. Hogue, met with an accident
which will lay him up for several
weeks. He was acting as messen-
ger boy for one of the telegraph
companies, and while riding near
the court house in Albany, with his
hands off tine handlebars, somehow
his wheel slipped and he fell to the
pavement, breaking his left arm in
two places
Miss Edith Gibson and Mrs. E
R. Lake and son leave on tomor-
rows train for Portland, from
which place they will start East
eally Sunday morning. They will
travel over the Oregon Short Line
and the Union Pacific. Mrs. Lake
will 60 to Michigan, while Miss
Gibs IN will 90 on to Boston, where
she will take the piano course in all
its branches at the New England
Conservatory of Music.
There will be no services at the
Baptist church for a week or two
as Mr.. Blakeslee is moving the
tabernacle to the corner Of the lot,
and Messrs. Albright and Adams
are going to build tower on the
northwest corner of it, and make
other desirable improvements by
which it will become quite an or
nament to our city. The pastor
and his people have our hearty
congratulations on this their wor.
thy effort,
Peter G. Stewart, a member of
the Oregon provisional government,
and the oldest Mason on the Pacific
coast, died in Tacoma, Tuesday
morning, aged 81 years. Mr.. Stew
art came across the plains with the
first great migratiop-that Of lS43,
which included J. w. Nesmith,
Jesse Applegate, Daniel Waldo, w.
T. Newby, M. M. McCarver and
many more. A very few of this
group still survive, among them
Almoran Hill, of Washington coun-
ty, Oregon;
an September 5th Norm Lilly
will commence to pick his hops.
He has forty acres of hops and they
ale all frst-class and free from pests
and disease. On this yard there
are four dryers. Mr.. Lilly is de-
lighted With his prospects and says
he can furnish employment to from
100 to $50 pickers for between two
and three weeks. This yard is
within a ehoft walk from town,
which will make it a most conven-
lent place to work for people living
in this city.
oliver. Mays, Pre- minent farmer
Qf Long Tom district, is a large
raiser of hogs and for the past years
has raised peas on which to fatten
them. This year he planted sew
erai acres more of peas than usual,
but the bugs got into then and
were rapidly making away with the
crop. He concluded that he had
better turn his hogs in and give
them the benefit before the bugs
aegttoyed them entirely, and was
greatly and agreeahly surprised to
lind the pigs ate the bugs instead
of the peas. They thoroughly
cleaned out the bugs.