Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-15
W. A. Sanders, Jewe:er.

The Misses Goldia and Pearl La
mar. Of Peoria, were the guests oil
Mr.. and Mrs. F. P. Morgan in this
city, several days of last week.
Ed Blake came up from his home
near Wells to attend some business
Ha states that crops are looking
sp'endidIy in his section and that
everybody is busy at present with
haying.
Prof. J. B.. Horner visited Ore
gon City last week to attend the
sessions of the Willamette Valley
Chatauqua Association for day or
two. He is now at the coast Win
his family.
A neat little collection OF poems
from the pen of Miss Jessie Buoy
whose home is in Philomath, was
brought to our notice few days
ago. It is inthe form OF a seaside
souvenir and is neatly printed.
.sIn Sound of the Sea" is the title.
J.P. Huffman has opened an ar
chitect office in this city and IS pre-
pared to do all work in this line.
Mr.. Huffman is thoroughly COM
nesent man and we bespeak for
him a good share Of public patro
mage. He has his office In tne
Zierolf building.
All of the fire.proof sheeting is
now OH the south side of the Hotel
Corvallis. The work of repairing
window sashes and putting IN new
ones is in progress. In truth, work
of every description is being rushed
for further orders. Mr.. Swanson
evidently means business.
| Sheriff Ross came out from LIN
coin county, Friday and took d: J..
Yergin back to Toledo with HIM
Mr.. Yergin is to stand trial in the
Lincoln county circuit court on the
charge of rape. AS Lincoln county
has no Jail, he has been confined in
the Jail of this county for the past
two or three months.
! O. Lackous left Corvallis last
Friday for Bremerton, Wash. He
has secured position as painter IN
the government navy yard at that
place. He receives a good salary
aud will undoubtedly hold the stu
alton, as he is a good man at MS
trade. There are now enough Cor
vallisites at Brerrerton to start a
colony.
J.R. and Dorah Parker, of Phil
omath, filed a petition in the coun-
ty court, July 10th, for the adop-
ton of Chas. G. Brown minor, a
boy born May 25th, 1895. Judge
Waters granted the petition July
/ 18th. The legal guardian of the
, boy was Elvira c. Matheny. The
f father of the boy is dead and th'
mother is in the insane asylum.
D Billv Baker, now of junction
S City, recently wrote a Corvalll
= friend that he was going out of tn
8 hotel business in that place thu
= week and desired if possible to b
in Corvallis with his family durln
: the latter part of this week to re
). main permanently. Billy's Healt
,s has been so poor since he engage
r. in the hotel business that he cor
is cluded to quit it Billy has nj
merous friends here who will
pleased to have him return.
n A gentleman who has been
d constant reader Of the GAZETTE fc
@ twenty seven years, remarked ;. !
i this Office recently that electrlci!
to has made no greater STRIDES IN u
last quarter century than has tn
newspaper. While Corvallis M
i not grown so much in populate
j.. in that time, the local page OF u
O. GAZETTE now contains at least thr
t. times as much matter as the
ce when it was written by Billy Ga
er ter. who was one of the best edlto
in the land.
DIS A letter dated July 9Th, writ
IN by M. w. Coombs, OF Grass Valie
be Nevada Co, California, was recelv
OF by Clerk Moses few days as
nd The writer inquired for the na.r
lid of men who were residents OF 20
Ire wallis in 1856. But few men NJ
here can claim a residence IN C'
or Wallis dating back forty-six yea
~ There are several women here W
r. r. were buxom lassies at that tlr
~ 81 Mr. Combs made special lnqu
I, regarding the possibility OF josh
w Mason, and if be still inhabited t
~ mundane sphere.
Albany is arranging to holo
street carnival during the encan
,,9 an ment of the Oregon National Qua
ny. ~y, which begins near that city t
M ,;n week. There will be nineteen &C
'ar panies encamped and with bar
10y, "SSi etc, it is estimated that there
'tldl an0 IN In