The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1902-08-30
"A purse has been found. Read
about it in the advertisements.

ABOUT 1t In the Advertisements.
DIR and Mrs Withycombe arrived
Wednesday evening from Fish Lake.
M E Church Soute Sunday School
10 n. Preaching 2 n by the pas.
tor All are invited.
Thomas Hudson who sustained a
broken thigh in the Philomath rail-
load accident is improving.
Mrs Rldders and daughter retur-
ned yesterday to their home at
Wells aftera brief visit with Corvallis
friends.
Neil Newhouse and family and
Miss Daisy Rose arrived Wednesday
evening from a camping trip to
Waterloo.
Mrs E F Thayer is to leave to
morrow to join her husband at Asto'
ria, where the latter has permanent
position.
After brief visit with relatives,
Ed Crawford left yesterday to accept
a position in a merchantile establish.
ment at Eugene.
"A late letter from Professor E F
Pernot relates that he will leave
Washington City in time to reach Cor.
Wallis September Goth.
Those who are to deliver wood to
the TIMES are requested to do so as
soon as possible, or at least to give
notice of their intention to do so.
Preaching by the Pastor at Nc
Farland Chapel. M E Church South
next Sunday II a m. Sunday School
10 m Epworth League 7 p m.
Monday is the regular meeting
of Corvallis Fire Department, and
the snuuaE election Of officers. All
members are requested to be pr esent.
Conductor Hoefline Of the Yaqui-
ma train spent a couple of days in
town this week, during which he was
under treatment by Corvallis dent
ist.
Services at the Christian Church
next Sunday, Subject in the morning,
"A City of Righteousness" In the eve
ming "The Lost Sheep.
Ella M Humbert.
C w Smith, recently arrived from
Kansas, has gone to Washington
county to look at that section with a
view of locating. He is to be absent
week.
In the Lilly yard. hop picking is
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About 100 pickers will be required.
The yard comprises 40 acres and the
crop is very fine.
All threshing machines are now
busy on the spring grain. Practically
all the grain will have been garn cred
by the latter part of the week. So far
the seas on has BEEN notable for fine
weather for harvest operations.
Next Wednesday the Crawford
peaches In the Kiger orchard will be
ready for picking. They will be sold
at dollar per bushel, buyers to pick
them. The orchard can be reached
either by ford or ferry.
-CM Cady. married recently in
Corvallis and a son of Mr. and Mrs J
J Cady. has been promoted
to position in the train dispatcher's
office with the Southern Pacific in
Portland.
Mrs E Mundy and family of
Portland arrived Thursday,sand occu
py one of the Jackson houses on Ninth
street. They come for educational
purposes and expect to remain four
years while some Of the young folks
take college course.
Prof. Cordley has made an inves.
tigation of the grasshoppers in vari
Gus adjoining localities, and has deci-
ded that they are not OF dangerous
variety. He Gays thev are not Of the
the migratory kind that work such
destruction in eastern states.
Misses Ella and Frances Currin
leave etoday for Weiser, Idaho. where
they have positions as teachers in the
public schools. Their home Is with
their mother, Mrs Mars, on the Gar
den Road, although they taught a.
Corvallis last year, and previously at
tended Stanford University-Monday's
Salem Journal.
Hop picking begins in the Whit
aker yard September 5th. The crop is
excellent, and the yard comprises 80
acres. A feature is that grasshoppers
have stripped the vines almost bare
Of leaves, and picking will be easy and
clean. About eighty pickers will be
and it will take about 12
days to complete the work.
Recent letters to Corvallis friends
from N P Peterson and family are to
the effect that Eastern Washington is
not as desirable place to live as in
Western Oregon. Mr. Peterson wrote
hat Webfoot might yet be his home.
Another of his family wrote that on
account of the dust over there the
.eams wore bells so they would not |
run against other teams on the road. |
The century dictionary at $63 is
;he newest offer made by agents. Mr. /
Riddle OF Philadelphia has been in
own for two or three days, selling I
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