Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-22

oregon FIRE Relief Association.
Philomath is to have a. brass
band. Organization has beer
effected, with Jesse Moses as direc
tor.
Miss Emma Elgin returned tc
her home in Salem on Monday
mornings boat after brief visil
with friends in this city.
Mrs. VIII Ready came up from
Portland last week to be at the
bedside of her father, Jas. Cauthorn
WHO is lying very ill at his home in
this city.
u. B. Vogle leaves this week fol
Southern California points, with
the view to finding suitable loca
ton. His family will remain in
Corvallis for the present.
Ernest Arnold, who has been &C.
lively engaged in the construction
Of q fence about his property in the
southern end of town, informs us
that the task has been completed,
In response to q telephone mes
sage, Johnny Irwin left fer Philo.
math, yesterday, to assist in taking
care of his sister, Mrs. David Hood
who is quite seriously i'll with
measles.
Seth Hurlburt, deputy supreme
commander Of the Maecabees, left
yesterday for Independence and
other points, to work in the interest
Of his order. He will probably be
absent about month.
The recent flood played a pecu.
liar trick. It picked large straw
stack up bodily from someone's
field, carried it over fences, and de.
posted it in a neat pile in the road
just this side of Stewards hill.
A surprise party was rendered
Mr.. Garrow last Friday night at
his home in this city. Drive whist
furnished entertainment, Carl
Hodes capturing the first and Con
Gerhard the BOBBY, prize. Mr..
Garrow left Saturday for Sissons,
Calf.
Robert L. Burkhart and Miss
Marguerite Anderson, Of Salem,
were married in Albany, January
II. Miss Anderson is quite we'll
known. ia Corvallis, where she has fa-
vored our people with musical num-
bers on numerous programs. Mr..
and Mrs Burkhart will reside in
Geo. Horning got caught in Al
bany by the high water, and he
waited until IT subsidized before re-
surning home. He reports that the
damage done to the west approach
Of the Albany bridge, by the water
away the dirt from the
piling and permitting the approach
to settle, has been repaired.
Nine counties of Oregon are rep
resented in the attendance at the
Farmers Short Course, now in
progress at the Oregon Agricultural
College. The course closes in the
irst days of February. It has been
he custom for the past two years
o close the course with a three
lays meeting of the fruitgrowers.
It was originally the purpose to
ollow the usual rule this year; but
he fact that the session OF the
Northwest Fruitgrowers' Associa-
ion is to begin in Portland about
he time of the closing of the Short
Course has caused the abandon
nent of the usual meeting here.
Agent Buford returned Monday
evening from Albany, accompanied
oy Special Agent D. w. Manchester,
If Cleveland, Ohio, says the Lincoln
County Leader. The gentlemen
proceeded to the Agency Tuesday
afternoon. Mr.. Manchester's mis-
sion is to pay the Indians the bal.
lnce due on treaty, an act secured
through the efforts of Congressman
Tongue Tongue last May the re-
ooit OF which, it will be remem-
,ered was branded as fake by
ew citizens of the county. AS the
work of preparing the pay roll is no
light task, several days must elapse
before the Indians of. the Siletz
agency are made more or less
happy.
Is. Jacobs, Of this city, travelling
alesman for Kohn & Co.,, of Port
and, was relieved of $75 by burg
ars at Roseburg Friday night.
acobs and another travelling man
we're at the Mcclellan House, where
he robbers entered the rooms
trough windows left partly open
or ventilation. In both cases they
lcted quickly and noiselessly, tax.
rg the victims trousers and rihing
he pockets. They effected de-
oarture by unlocking the doors Of
he rooms. The apparel of the
men was found in the
court house yard. Two residences
Tele burglarized in Roseburg the
same night. The officers have no
,lew to the robbers.
Hon. John Whitaker, of Corvallis,
'ne of Benton county's leading
social and political reformera, was
in Albany last Wednesday and re-
nained over night, the guest of
The editor. Mr., Whitaker was nne