The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1902-12-13
LOCAL LORE.

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Mrs Jones OF Amity, arrived We'd
nesday, and is the guest for a few days
of her sister, Mrs Gillespie.
Lee Henkle left yesterday for
Pendleton, for a visit with relatives.
He Is to be absent a week.
The Cauthorn Hall boys are to
entertain the Alpha Hall girls and a
number of the literary societies this
evening.
Mrs Ruth Clark Ia to leave the
first Of the coming week for an ex-
tended visit with her daughter at
Newberg.
Mrs 8 E Baldwin. who owns prop
e1ty in Jobs addition, left Wednesday
for Portland to spend the winter with
son and daughter.
The Firet Spiritual Union Of
Corvallis. will hold services at Bar
ret Lyceum on Sunday at 3 p m.
All friends cordially invited.
Forty five hogs were butchered
by g E Dinges the other day. The
work was done at the Smith & Hout
slaughter house. The hogs are to
be made into bacon.
Newly elected officers OF the
Eastern Star lodge are, Clara Fisher,
matron; DR. Harper, patron; Lilly
Groves, associate matron; Mrs Gala
han, secretary: Mrs Carter, treasurer;
: Mrs Shelton, conductress; Mrs LATER
ty, associate conductress.
The engagement of the Clara
Mathes theatrical company, which
was to have played at the Opera
House all next week, has been can
celled. Instead, "Pickings From
Puck is billed for next Thursday
night
The new dam put In by the
Fischer mill people on Marys river
has had severe test during the high
water. Tuesday the river was 80 full
that the river below the dam was as
high as above, and August Fischer
made the trip over 1t 10 small boat
The only way that the presence Of
the dam could be told was by gen.
tie swell In the water Immediately
over 1t.
The following officers for the en-
suing year were elected by the Degree
of Honor lodge, at their last regular
meeting. Past chief of honor, Mrs
Dora Waters; chief OF honor, Miss
Eva Tucker; lady of honor, Mrs Nellie
Ethel Harris; recorder, Miss Leila
Tucker; fnancler, Mrs Mary Shsas-
green; receiver, Mrs Julia Horning;
usher, Miss Avalyn Barnhart; inside
watch, Mrs Cynthia Jackson; outside
watch, Taylor Porter.
Two and three fourths acres of
land in the suburbs Of Corvallis was
sold Wednesday by w a Wells to Ben
Martin. The price paid was 1915 or
800 per acre. The land consists Of
the north half of block % In Wells &
McElroys addition, and lies east
across the road from the B w john
son orchard.
Emil Zeis, formerly of Corvallis,
is running soda works and Ice depot
at Copper City, California. Copper
City is a mining town in the vicinity
Of Redding, and the business Of Mr.
Zeis is In connection with the big Ice
works OF John and Ed Zeis at the
latter point.
Recent news from James Taylor:
ro1otoo fhot h io no v1nauil1o Nn1
ifornia, and that he is improved In
health. He wrote that thousands of
people. all suffering with consumption
were there, some even in tents, and
that the train each day carried of
one or more corpse OF those who had
succumbed to the disease. The enviro-1
ments were not to Mr. Taylors liking,
and he left the place and returned to
California, where he may remain all
winter, and where Mrs Taylor may
join him later on.
Hops continue to be quot
ed at 25 cents, with a weaker de- !
mand abroad. The crop is said to
have passed almost entirely into the
hands Of spectators. The question
Of what price will be next year.
whether high or low, is one over |!
which growers speculate. In come |
localities. the reports are that many
new yards will be set out as result |
Of the high prices OF this year. AS
two years are required to bear well,
the general estimate is that the in
vestment is bad one.
The "Foot Social" to have been
given Thursday evening by the Wood |
men Of the World, was postponed to
a near future but indefinite date,
It is said that the postponement was
occasioned by the sparse attendance
from various causes, among which :
were the inclement weather and a |
number Of counter attractions. It Is
possible, too, that the plan OF enter.