The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1902-09-13
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Vlslllng ner parent IN TINS city, zUzxrzrx
j Fl Harris aud family are rusti-
eating at Newport. s
Her sister and her husband, from
Nebraska, are guests at the home of
W G Davis.
MIR and Mrs John Rowland re-
turned last Saturday for a summers
vacation spent at Big Elk. w.
M E church South, preaching II
m and 80 m. Annual conference
next Wednesday $50 p N.
Miss Maud Kerns of Eugene, who
is to be one Of the teachers in the
public schools, arrived yesterday.
M e church-Frank L Moore will
occupy the pulpit at IL m and 7:3O
p m next Sunday.
Ed Smith and John Zeis left We'd
nesday for BEDDING, California, for
visit. They expect to go on to San
Francisco before their return home.
Mrs Roman Zahn of Alsea, left yes
terday for Germany for visit with
relatives. She accompanies Mrs Web,
ber and children.
Mrs A L Knisely accompanied
by her sister Miss Briggs and MMonroe
expects to leave about the Goth for
three months visit in Michigan.
MIR and Mrs Coopey and Mr. and
Mrs Kaupisch arrived Thursday from
Newport, The Coopeys expect to leave
today for their home In Portland.
"A new piece Of handsome furni-
ture adorns the law office OF 3 E Will
son. It is desk, manufactured of
Oregon ash by the Colbert. Gregory
furniture factory. and is in all respects
a very slightly affair.
Mrs Henry Allen, accompanied by
her child, leaves tomorrow to join her
husband. who is in the permanent
cepsus bureau at Washington City.
The journey, as far atleast as Chicago
will be made with Mr. and Mrs Fulton.
The Fourth Quarterly conference
of the M E church, with Presiding Ell
der DR. T B Ford in the chair was
held last Tuesday q. ening. Rev T l.
Moore, present incumbent of the pulpit
was invited to remain for the third
year,
"A Catholic, a Jew, a phariaee and
a meth dist all stood together on a
street corner yesterday and each con-
fessed he had been praying for rain.
It will be impossible for the powers to
resist that combination, aud the wealth
er clerk may be expected soon TO turn
his clouds loose.
The Woldt saloon was burned last
Tue sday morning, and Wednesday
evening the proprietor received from
the Insurance companies checks for
the amount Of his policies. The latter
were, $3.50 on building in the Under
writer's of New York, M Jacobs local
agent. and $3.50 on contents in the
Continental, E r Bryson, agent.
A sewer gang from Portland is at
work on the lateral sewer through
the Cameron, Porter, Wells block.
The street has been crossed and clos
ed up, and the excavations are nearly
through the Cameron block. The work
is done by Portland contractors, who
have two other sewers to build ,Sseach
of which ia short.
Allen Bates, pharmacy student
at OAC. has successfully passed the
junior examination before the State
Board Of Pharmacy. The eXamina-
tions occurred in Portland Tuesday
and Wednesday. The result entities
| Mr. Bates to practice as an assistant
registered pharmacist. and to per-
| form all the work Of a druggist ex-
cept to take entire charge OF a store.
! Mr. Bates returned from Portland
Thursday.
"A local townsman, after hearing
that Tillamook was in danger Of be-
ing burned up by forest fires, wonder
ed why the Inhabitants didn't plough
fu1rows. about the town. Another
townsman allowed that they might as
well try to stop the heat in Hades by
ploughing furroWs around that well
| known resort.
The two hop yards in the vicinity
of Philomath are full of piekers. One
is the Winters yard comprising the
Zimmerman and Hairless fields, and
sggregating about SO acres, The 9th.
er is the Lob Henkle yard Of about
II acres. Picking began the first
Thursday Of last week, and the
other last Monday.
1t is the custom of hoppickers to
rise very early. but one family Of
them to the westward broke all rec
ords the other day. By some mis-
take one member of the family got
astir at midnight, and got the impress
sion among the rest that il was
time to get to work. Breakfast was
hurriedly cooked and eaten, and then
| the process of waiting for daylight be-
gan. They had to wait from about
half past two until five a m for it to
get light enough to see.
Hop picking is progressing fav-
| orabiy in the yard of James Heron,
90 s,-