The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1902-11-05
LOCAL LORE.
Wheat 81.

today.
Miss Helen Steiwer arrived
Monday for weeks visit with Cor
wallis friends.
Miss Frances Belknap left Sun
day to begin term Of school In the
Barclay distiiet.
Mrs Garrow, Miss Elma King
and Miss Edna Garrow left yesterday
for weeks visit with Portland rela-
tives.
The date opposite the name ir
the address of your TIMEs Is the
time to which your subscription is
paid. Have you noticed 1t lately?
The first Spiritual Union of Cor.
wallis, will hold services at Barrel
/Lyceum on Sunday at 3 p m. Al
friends cordially invited.
Miss Marguerite Fisher, known
to theatre goers as Babe Fisher Is
playing three nights engagement at
Albany, Monday was the opening
night.
The county bridge at Hughsons,
nine miles northeast on ths< Albany
road, is expected to be completed to-
morrow. Its cost is to be between
$500 and $500. ~.
Harry WIthycomhe left Sunday
for Chicago, to complete course in
pharmacy in the University Of Il
linois. He will enter the senior class
and expects to graduate In the
spring.
-"Hello Bill'' is an attraction book
ed for the Corvallis Opera House
next Monday night. The play is one
of Hoyt's, and all his productions are
uproariously funny. The Company
Is said to be good one.
Mrs Moore has received the
amount Of the policy on account Of
the death Of her husband, James
Moore, drowned recently in the Nc
KenZie. The insurance was In the
Maccabees, and the amount ST 900.
While enroute on horseback from
Big Elk to Corvallis the other day,
Miss Mulvaney was thrown from her
horse and both bones OF the forearm
were dislocated at the elbow. The
accident happened near Thomas
Cooper place.
e Arnold, OF Alma, Nebraska,
has arrived, and has been for several
days at the home Of L L Brooks. He
is on the Coast to look at the country,
and after his arrival there, may dis
pose of his interests in Nebraska,
and return to Oregon to reside.
In a game Of football at Mon
mouth Saturday, the State Normal
defeated the Salem High School elev-
en- In the overwhelming score Of 90 to
nothing. A dispatch says Coach
Bruce Burnett of the Monmouth team
Is well pleased with the showing made
by his men. Why not?
Casper Zierolf is encountering in
Ohio. more rain than he Is used to in
Webfoot. A letter written after he
had been there 80 days relates that
all but two or three had been rainy.
So much rain had fallen that he had
seen corn moulding In the ear. He
is not expected home before ,Decem-
Der.
]. The following invitations extend
ed by Mrs Mary 81 Whitby, master
of the Grange. The first OF Superin-
tendent Denman's series OF parents
meetings will be held with Willamette
Grange next Saturday afternoon at
1-30. "A good programme Is expected
and an open meeting has been ar
ranged. All friends of the public
schools are invited to be present.
"A change Of plan has been adopt
ed for Hotel Corvallis. It was form
erly the arrangement to have the
office In the north side of the build
ing. It is now proposed to have it in
the middle room in front. The taking
out Of hallway will add much to
the width, and with addition Of room
from the rear will make the proposed
office commodious and convenient. |
Unless there Is a change 10 the pro-
gramme, the building will not be COM
pleted until next spring.
His friends figure 1t out that
John Fowells Is experiencing a long |
rainy season. He left Oregon last t
spring just as the rainy season was
coming to an end. Just as he got to j
Iowa it began to rain, and kept it up
most cf the time until he left. His
.eturn to Corvallis was in time for the
Dig rain of Sunday, and with the rainy |
season of the winter just ahead, his
riends account that sooner or later
ne will begin to hunger for a dry
pell.
Saturday was the first day for
vheelmen 10 have use Of sidewalks,
md 1t ushered in bicycle accident.
rhe victim was Mrs Hairless. She
vas passing along the street near
he boarding house, east across the /
trees from the court house park.
ohm Rexford was coming from an
pposite direction on wheel. He