Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-05
LOCAL NEWS.

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New goods weekly at Nolan &
Callahan's.
Miss Alice Headriek arrived
home from Salem, Tuesday.
Will Moore is quite i'll with in
termittant fever at the home of his
stepfathsr, o. J. Treese.
A German in advertising for a lost
pig, said: "It has no ear.marks
except its tail, which is missing"
We have an elegant line of up
to-date wall paper, in all designs
and at all prices. We have bought
it to sell, It's at The Paint Store,
c. A, Barnhart, proprietor.
The children of the late Mrs.
Mary Allphin wish to express their
heartfelt thanks to all friends who
80 kindly assisted during the illness
and following the death Of their
dear mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl G. Hodes re-
turned from San Francisco, We'd
nesday. While in that city they
saw many old Corvallisites, Mr.. and
Mrs. S. L. Kline and family, Mr..
Irving Lea, Mr.. and Mrs. Emil
Zeis and a number of others.
Orin Hamlin, a driver on Hus-
toms dray line, committed suicide
in Albany, April 1st. Unrequitted
love is said to have been the cause
Of his trouble. Hamlin spent his
boyhood days in Corvallis, where
his father died years ago. He was
a hard-working fellow, about 25
years of age.
About two years ago a Harvest
Souvenir, desert ptive1 of Corvallis
and Benton county, was gotten out
in the GAZETTE Office. The adver-
tising committee Of the Citizens
League desire to secure as many as
possible of these souvenirs for dis
tributien, pending completion of a
pamphlet which the committee is
preparing. Parties having copies
will perform a service for the coun-
ty by leaving them at Bryson &
Woodson's Office.
Squire Rvcraft was in Corvallis,
Saturday, on his way home to Al
sea, after an absence OF three and
ons-half mouths in Indiana, whittier
he had gene with his brother, whe
desired to spend the remainder of
his life with his sister. The old
gentleman is dissatisfied with In
diana, however, and conteMplates
moving to California. Mr.. Rycraft
reports great movement OF immi-
grants toward the Pacific North.
west. Nearly 1000 were On the
same and other sections of the train
that brought him west.
Albany is in a psck of trouble
over the wagon bridge across the
Willamette at that place. The last
Legislature amended the city char.
ter by making the bridge across the
Willamette a toll-bridge. At
meeting of the city council the
bridge was ordered repaired, pre-
paratory to beginning the collection
of toll, at an expense not to exceed
$4,000. Last Tuesday, J. B. Tillot-
son, a contractor, commenced suit
against the city, asking for an in
junction preventing the collection
Of tell on the ground that it is a
free brid dge; also to prevent the re-
pairing of the bridge except by
contract, and stopping the city from
going further in debt. AS the coun-
ty will not keep up the bridge, the
suit puts the city in an unpleasant
position.
Professor Frank Rigler, city
superintendent Of the schools in
Portland, and Prof. Burnham, Of the
same system of schools, have been
engaged to take hold of the summer
normal school work at Newport
this season. Both of these gentle
men have national reputation as
public school men, and they will
give character to the work they are
about to undertake at the seaside.
Their school of methods will be by
far the best on the northwest coast
this season and it is believed will
attract from Washington, Idaho,
Montana, and the northern part OF
California. Prof. Smith, of the Or.
egen State Normal, will give invalu-
able assistance to this work. The
round table instruction, consisting
Of painting, music, amateur photog-
raphy, etc., will be placed in charge
of competent instructors, and the
seaside course of ter lectures will be
immense. The summer normal
will. probably open about the 10th
of July, while the lecture course
will begin about the End of August