Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-08-17
S. e. Young & Son.
Albany, Oregon.
LOCAL NEWS.

A0A AAOP PA
For hop-picking gloves go to No
Ian & Callahan.
Senator j. D. DAILY returned
Wednesday from trip to Portland
J.H. Roberts and H. L. Waldel
came over from Albany Tuesda,
evening.
The Neutrality-suspicious. party
are home from a delightful outing
in Alsea.
Prof. Shelton and Fulton are nov
in the Bohemia mining district il
the interest of the o A G school O
mines.
Mrs. Ella M. Humbert will occu
py the pulpit in the Christian
church next Sunday morning ant
evening.
Two carloads of -four from tn
Benton Mills went over to Yaquini
last week and were taken by steam
er to California points.
If all the weddings reported a
this office occur as scheduled this
fall, house-furnishers are going tC
do land-ofice business.
A. Wilhelm & Sons, of Monroe
have chartered the little rivel
steamer McMinnville. She will be
used this winter to make severa
tips up the Long Tum.
The West Side freight was very
late Wedneday evening in reaching
Corvallis. So late, in fact, tha
some uneasiness was felt. The
boys arrived in time with an un
usually large train.
Mrs. Ralston Cox and daughter
Esther, spent several days with
friends in this city while on theil
way home to Portland. They have
been visiting for the past two
months with Mrs. Cox's parents or
Beaver creek.
John II. Pattee, disciplinarian al
the Chemawa Indian School, died
Monday as the result of a surgical
operation. Mr.. Pattee will be re-
membered here as the giant center
rush of the Chemawa football team
in it's games with O AC.
There are some light-fingered in
1ividuals in this vicinity who will
be "nipped" if they don't mend
their ways. Several depredations
are reported where goods of various
character have been appropriated.
the authorities are quite vigilant.
A gentleman who has been
through Kings Valley within the
past few days states that the wheat
crop in that section is very short
From what is learned of conditions
there the valley will not average
more than eight or ten bushels ol
wheat per acre, if it does that.
At meeting of the Albany city
council Tuesday evening the street
commissioner of that city was in.
structed to fix the big steel bridge
across the Willamette. Council
man Whitney suggested that the
Legislature be asked to make the
bridge toll bridge, at its next ses'
sion, and that a mass meeting o.
citizens be called to consider the
same.
A young gentleman by the name
OF Tompkins was in Corvallis We'd
nesday for the purpose of making
an inspection of the college build
!ngs and facilities of the o A c.
His home is in Oregon City and he
made the trip here on his wheel
He was highly pleased with th'
college and its surroundings ane
will attend school here this fall.
The show windows of F. L. Mil
ler, the clothier, have attracted
much attention this week. Thu
window dressers, to whose artistic
temperament this display is due
are Tom Monteith and Gene Simp
son. The many fine views dis
played of scenes in Japan were col
lected by Mr.. Simpson while h
was in the land of the ''Mikado" 1
couple of years ago. They are real
ly very fine and add much to tn
attractiveness of the display.
Art Ready, who recently depart
ed from this city in quest OF
situation, was recently heard from
in Olympia. He secured a posi-
ton in the office of the Record Pub
fishing Company the day after hi
arrival in that city. In a letter t
to relatives in Corvallis, Ar
states that he has married sine
leaving this city and has settle'
down. If he makes as good hus
band as he is printer, and W
think he will, his wife will have
model. Congratulations are eS
tended.