Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-26
LOCAL NEWS.

George Henkle is spending
month in Idaho, visiting with rela
tives.
The union school picnic to hav'
been held at Monroe, June % ha
been postponed until Saturday
June 80, on account of rain.
Thos. Whitehorn has been having
the interior of his popular resor
handsomely papered. 1t adds
much to its attractiveness.
Jack Arnold arrived last Friday
to remain in Corvallis. Mrs. Ar
mold, his mother, is now in Louis
lana. Her health, we are sorry te
state, is quite poor.
Miss Olive Thompson was ex-
pected to sail from San Pedro last
Friday en- route to San Francisco
thence home. She is expected
home by the 4th Of July.
1t is stated that some Of the GEN.
sus takers, when they subtract the
age of the eldest born from that OF
the mother, are often astounded a
lady should have been married SO
young.
An effort will be made by en-
gineers of the state to have a bill
pass at the coming legislature that
will prohibit men from running an
engine who have not passed an ex-
animation and received a certificate
of competency.
George Horning will ship car
load of sheep and hogs to Portland
today from Wells. Hogs are worth
from Al to q cents and sheep are
quoted at 3 cents per pound.
These figures are double what they
were five years ago.
Teddy Palmer left yesterday for
his home in Grants Pass. He was
one of the graduates of the class of
1900 at the o. A. c., was fine ath-
lete, a good musician and all
around hale fellow He leaves
many friends behind him in Cor
Wallis.
J. H. Steiwer ana family left
Saturday for their home near the
Waldo Hills, in Marion county.
They will spend the summer on the
farm, preferring this to going to
the coast or the mountains. When
the o A G again opens its doors
they will be domiciled in Corvallis
to remain during the school year.
Miss Emma Thompson, in whose
hands was placed the selling of the
bankrupt stock of goods of Miss
Miss Emma Crawford, disposed of
said stock last Friday to Marshal
Miller. The price paid was $425.
1t is thought that when all ex-
penses are paid there will be about
twenty-five cents on the dollar left
for the creditors.
Manager John Lenger of the Cor
Wallis Commission Store, is the
busiest man in town. His firm
handles every thing in the commits
sion line and he is kept constantly
attending to business. They carry
the famous Corvallis and Monroe
fours. A package of Arm & Ham
mer soda is given with every sack
of the latter.
During the past two weeks three
large tanks of clover have been
chopped up in the manner of saur
kraut and sliced at the college farm.
These tanks are nine feet in dia-
meter by a depth of twenty-five
feet. There is to be another tank
of ensilage put up; this last one. is
to be of green peas. A close watch
will be kept over these silos, as this
proceeding is experimental to a
large degree.
Wheat is coming up in price,
especially in the eastern markets.
Portland is hardly keeping pace
with prices quoted other places.
There has been much speculation
ton in wheat and there are cou-
pie of men in this city who have
successfully operated in this field.
On a couple of hundred dollars in
vested it is stated that one Of the
men has realized a couple of thou
sand. All in a very sdort time,
too.
Mr.. Howard, ex-congressmau of
Alabama, who recently stumped the
state in opposition to fusion and
who made a very fine speech at the
court house few weeks ago, thinks
of making Oregon his home. 1t is
believed that he has purchased or
has the refusal of a large farm near
Ashland. Mr.. Howard has return
ed home to bring his wife out and
whether or not they will make Ore
gon their future home depends on
how the climate agrees with Mr.,