Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-07-09

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No charges for prescriptions al
the Bicycle Hospital.
Leave orders at the Commission
Store for all kinds of wood.
The city council held lis regular
! monthly meeting last night.
Miss Pauline Kline left Saturday
for visit with the family of her
brother in Portland.
1. R. Dlniel went to Portland
on the Fourth He arrived h,me
on the Sunday train.
Is per cent off en- all our mems
clothing to make room for ou; large
fall order-At Kiine's.
Professor Margaret Smell left
Saturday for Berkeley, Calf, for an
absence of a couple of months.
Curtis johnson, who has been en-
gagged in painting at the college,
returned to his hsme in Eugene,
Sunday.
The delinquent tax list will be
published about July 20. The sale,
however, will probable be set for
August or September.
r. H. Huston, Of Corvallis, has
entered Helen H., a full sister to
Robert H., in the Oregon stake of
81 800 for foals Of 1900.-Rural
Spirit.
School districts Nos SO and II
have been united, and will here.
after be known as district No. SO.
A new school building will be erect
ed near the station at Summit.
Miss Winnie Mcfarland, of Oak
land, Calf, arrived in this city, Sat-
urday, and and is the guest Of Mrs.
B. w. Wilson and family. Corval-
lis used 10 be Miss McFarland's
home.
The big prune company has pur.
chased a large bill Of rough and
dressed lumber from the. Benton
County Lumber Co., and It is now
being delivered for use in building
the mammoth dryer at the orchard
near Granger.
The Ere alarm bell called many
from the supper table Sunday eve.
ming, The department responded
promptly, but when they reached
the scene of the fire the blaze had
been quenched. 1t was merely the
burning out of hue at the resi-
dence Of Mrs. H. Wright.
d Mrs. F. L. Miller and son, Max,
went to Portland yesterday. Mr..
Miller will most likely join them
today, and they will visit relatives
until Mr.. Miller's father, Thos. Fl.
Miller, arrives from Iowa, when the
entire party will proceed to Cor
Wallis.
Mr.. Glackley came near getting
seriously hurt few days ago while
riding on his bicycle near Wells
He was going down an incline on
the bicycle path at neck-break speed
and suddenly came right onto a.
pile of rails that had been placed
On the path. He was thrown vio.
lently to the ground and badly
bruised. The wheel was smashed
and done up generally and its owner
was obliged to walk to the station
and take the train back.
The little soa Of DR.. Withycsmhe
had an experience with gunpowder
Sunday which gave him the im-
preston that that explosive is
quicker than lightning. He poured
a quantity of powder into can
and dropped in match, hoping to
Jump away before the explosion
came, but-he didn't. AS a result
his face was badly burned and his
eyes slightly injured. DR.. Cathey
was called and soon had the suffer-
er resting easily. It is believed
that no serious results will follow.
The agricultural college is doing
good work by inviting the farmers
to Corvallis and giving them the
practical experience of seeing how
silo is made and filled. In the
East ensilage has become a neces-
sity to the dairy interests. If more
farmers would take advantage of
the valuable opportunities to get
practical lessons from the college in
farming along some of these new
lines their interests would be ma
terially advanced. Oregon City
Enterprise.
Gilbert Witham started to Albany
with his family on the Fourth. He
was driving team Of young horses
and the sudden approach of the ex-
cursion train scared the team and
caused them to run up an embank-
ment upsetting the hack. Mr.. With
am and his family were thrown out,
but Mr.. Witham hsld on to the
reins and stopped the team. One
of Mr.. Withanl's hands was sonne-
what hurt, but the other members
of the family escaped with fright
and slight bruises. The wagon
was righted and the damage sus-
tanned by it repaired sufficiently for