Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-29

Fred Chambers, Of Siletz, is visit.
ing in this city.
Miss Ella Ingraham is visiting
friends at Lebanon.
Services as usual at Baptist
church on Lords Day.
Miss Francis Brown returned
Friday from short visit in Port.
land.
Attorney J. F. Yates went tc
Toledo Saturday, where he has
business in connection with the cir.
cult court for Lincoln county, now
in session.
Quite number of the farmers on
Kiger's Island lost fencing during
the recent high water. Henry
Gerhard, R. G. Kiger and q. H.
Davis were among the heaviest
losers.
In recent letter to his father,
Judge Burnett, Brady Burnett,
now in the census department at
Washington, D. c., states that there
is complaint of a great deal of la
grippe.
Mention was made in a recent
issue of this paper of an accident
that had overtaken Mrs. J. H. AL
bright. 1t seems that her injuries
are more serious than was at first
thought, She is now in quite a
critical condition.
The games in the college armory
Saturday evening attracted a lar ge
audience. The indoor baseball con-
test resulted in victory for the
commissioned officers by score of
II to 10. The basket ball game
was an exciting one, the White
Roses winning by score Of 4 to O.
Con Gerhard received a letter
yesterday from Tite Ranrey, the
merchant at Summit. who requests
that Con take charge of the store
during the absence Of the proprie-
ter on business. Con responded by
taking passage On the west-bound
train yesterday afternoon.
Benton county's delegation to
the legislature has representation
on the following committees: Sen.
ator DAILY, Craftsmanship Of the
horticultural and place on the
agricultural and forestry, and
penal institutions committees; Rep
representative Nichols, chairman
ship Of the agricultural, and place
on the committee on education.
On Friday, February l, at 7:3O
p. m. in the Baptist church, Rev.
G. Hill, formerly Baptist minister
in Albany, now returned mission
ary from China, driven out by per-
secution, will lecture on the subject
of Christian work in China, past
present and future. He wilt have
many curious brought with him
from that strange land. No collec.
tion. All invited. -
Last Friday evening, Orgeana
encampment, I. O.. O.. F., Of AL
bany, conferred degrees on a NAM
Der of candidates. The occasion
was gala one and visiting Odd
Fellows from various portions of
the state were present. Those from
Corvallis were: G A Barnhart,
VIM Porter. VIM Bogue, T J Greigh-
ton, R Johnson, G M Ream and
M H Brunk. The exercises closed
with banquet. Those who par
ticipated from this city speak in
highest terms of the treatment &C.
corded them.
A Chitwood correspondent to the
Toledo Leader says: Ralph Mason,
brother Of C. B., has been very Ill
during the past two weeks. His
mother took him to Corvallis last
week and placed him under the
care OF a physician. He was at
tended by two Of the best doctors in
town, but they decided there was
no hope of his recovery, so he was
brought home last Monday evening.
The doctors think there is an ab-
cess forming on his brain, but he is
apparently getting better.
Prof. A. L. Knisley, chemist at
the o A G, delivered an interesting
and valuable address to those pres
sent at the Oregon Dairymen's AS
sociation, which met recently at
Hillsboro. AS a preface to his dis
course Prof. Knisely said: "Agri.
culture, in the broad sense Of the
the word, Is the basis or founda-
tion upon which all our modern de.
vslopment rests. At the present
time the most advanced and pre-.
gressive nations of the world are
spending millions of dollars in
studying and improving the con.
dition of agriculture. Within the
broad field of agriculture are
number of farm operations and
without doubt two of the most i'm
portant are those of grain growing
and dairying."
A meeting of the committee on
arrangements for the celebration of
John Marshall day, held at the Of
fee of Yates, Yates & Gibson on
last Friday evening, was attended
by President Catch of the college,
Judge Burnett, E. E. Wilson, E.
R. Bryson, J. N. McFadden, and