Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-04-11
LOCAL NEWS.
The Gordon Hat.

It is a trife strange that Benton
county voters are so careless abou
the matter of registration.
S. L. Kline left, Wednesday, TO
San Francisco, where he will spene
a month with his family.
Tomorrow is F. P. Sheasgreen''
birthday and he will be given +,
party at his home in this city.
A. L. Simpson, proprietor of th'
Magnolia steam laundry, of Albany.
was in Corvallis on business during
the week.
F. L. Miller has purchased th'
property at present occupied by
Jesse Spencer and family on Fifth
street. Mr.. Miller purchased the
property of Mrs. Clara Staiger, Of
Salem.
Students OF the o A G are Ell
thusiastic in their praise Of the ad.
dress made in chapel Wednesday
morning by Mr.. Wallis Nash. Th'
speaker gave sketch of thelife ane
character of the late Cecil Rhodes
Houses are evidentallv in great
demand in Corvallis. Tuesday a
gentleman, his wife and six chill
dren arrived from Kansas and ht
was given everlasting trouble before
he succeeded in domiciling his fam.
lily.
T. 7. Barnhart is still in Everett
Wash. He has just completed the
task of placing the machinery in
the hew carriage factory of his
brother-in-law. J. M. Newman. Il
is not likely that Mr.. Barnhart will
remove his family from this place
Mrs. Joseph Garrow came up
from Salem Tuesday, for a visit
with relatives. Mr.. Garrow writes
from McCloud, Calf, that he has
the foundation of his residence laid
and as soon as the dwelling is COM
pleted Mrs. Garrow will join him
at that place.
T. W. Dilley has ali unusually
large stock of bicycles on hand at
present. He handles nothing but
tirst-class wheels and every wheel
he sells this season will be guaran-
teed until January 1st, 1908, and
in the meantime he will repair all
punctures, etc, fee of charge.
The annual meeting of the Ben
ton County Road Club will be held
at the Court House on Saturday,
April 18th. at S:I5 p. m.J for the
of officers, and such other
business as may come before the
meeting. All members are request
ed to be present. w. H. Currin,
Secretary.
Miles Young has rented his city
dwelling to Major F. E. Edward.
Mr.. Young has purchased property
in Seattle, Wash, and will soon
move to that point. On his de-
parture Major Edwards will move
into Mr.. Youns's dwelling and
Jesse Spencer will taka possession
of the Sixth street property vacated
by the major.
Miss Leona Smith returned 70
St. Helens Hall, Portland, yester-
day, after weeks visit with rela-
atives and friends in this city.
Wednesday evening she was given
a surprise party by a number of her
young friends. A most enjoyable
time is reported to have resulted.
Miss Leona will be home again in
June.
Messrs. S. Nj. Calkins and A. H.
Frashang of Twin Valley, Mimi,
are here at present, the guests OF
MIR. w. w. Calkins, a brother of
the above. They are out on a tour
of inspection. Mr.. Frashang is a
partner of Senator Myron in the
hardware business in Twin Valley.
TIE latter visited this city last win
ter and is now en- route to this state
for his second visit.
The Benton County FIGURING
Mills are now closed down, and the
probabilities are that they will do
hut little grinding between now
and harvest. The reason for the
mills closing down is that they have
all the -four on hand that they can
store. They have quite q quantity
of wheat yet, but they always keep
a certain amount on hand until the
new wheat comes in.
The first inter-society debate for
the cup offered by President Catch
will take place at the college this
evening. 1t will be between the
Pierians and the Philadelphians
and the subject of debate is, Re
solved that an alliance between
Great Britain and the United
States would be mutually benefi-
cial." The debate will occur in the
college chapel and the exercises will
commence promptly at 7:45. This
is free for everybody.
Mrs. Hugh Cleek, who resides on
a farm south of town, left Wednes
day for Roseburg to attend the
bedside of her father, who was at
the point of death when she was