Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-29
LOCAL NEWS.

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Miss Bessie Dannenan was a
passenger to Newport, Saturday.
Good Bye Prices on all Summer
Goods. NOLAN & CALLAHAN.
Banker Hirshberg, of Indepen-
.lence, passed through Corvallis,
Saturday, enroute for Newport.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Ward ar
rived home, Saturday, from visit
with friends in Albany and Browns
vile.
Prof. and Mrs. s. I Pratt, of Phil
omath will occupy the residence of
Prof. Covell, in this city, during
the next month.
The Oregon State Press Associa-
tim will hold sessions in Newport
from August 14th to 18th. They
will see the "dog days" out.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Simpson
and daughter, Miss Pearl, arrived
home, Saturday, from their trip to
the coast. They were absent two
or three weeks.
Representative elect Hayden came
out from Alsea Friday to attend some
business matters. He says that
everything over in the valley is in
it's normal condition. Mr.. Hay
den returned home Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. R. DeBolt, and
eight-year-old daughter, of Yaquina
City, passed through Corvallis,
Saturday, en- route to Portland.
They went down to secure medical
assistance for the little girl, whom
it is feared has consumption. Mr..
DeBoit is a brother-in-law of W.
p. Lafferty, of this city, and has
charge of the G. & E. Co.'s machine
shops at Yaquina.
Last Saturday noon w. G. Cor
bett finished making tiling for
this season. He made somewhere
between 10000 and 10000 tile.
He put his crew at brick making
again yesterday morning and will
make about 10000 more brick.
This will require the greater part
of this week and will wind up oper
ations in Mr.. Corbett's yard for
this year. All told he will have
made in the neighborhood of $685.
900 brick.
Henry Amber was in from Phil
omath, Saturday. and reported hav.
ing negotiated the transfer of the
livery stable at that place the day
before. Mr.. Mumert sold the stable
to Moses & Stephens. The price
paid was 5000, cash, and the new
proprietors took immediate possess
sion. Mr.. Amber says that every
thing in the neighborhood of Philo-
math is in a fourishing condition
and he expects soon to do consider
able business in the real estate line.
Jonathan Brown is said to have
lost a fine minorca rooster in an
unusual way. He had only the
bne rooster on his place and one
day the rooster showed unmistak-
able signs of having been a princi-
pal in a fight. The following day
the minorca died. A little later
Mr.. Brown located the scene of the
battle. Minorca feathers were
scattered about the ground in great
abundance and there was also
quantity of feathers from a China
pheasant rooster strewn about the
ground. Mr.. Brown is of the opin-
ion that the China bird killed his
minorca rooster.
Mr.. Nelkirk, who arrived in
Benton county about month ago
from Colorado, and purchased
farm near Philomath, was the re-
cipient of a letter from his old
home, last Saturday, that will have
q tendancy to squelch any desire he
might entertain to 60 back to his
oil home. Among other things,
the writer stated they had recently
experienced a rainstorm back there
during which an inch of water fell
in five minutes. This beats Ore
CONS best record. The writer fur
ther stated that in an orchard CT
10000 peach trees there would be
about one bushel of peaches. From
the above it will appear that Ore
gnnians had better make the most
of their troubles at home and be
oontented.
An observant person will readily
see what an important f4ctsr the
creamery has become in the indus
trial system of Benton county.
Early each morning wagons laden
with milk commence to arrive at
the creamery and there is con.
slant stream of wagons coming in
until late in the forenoon. This
means thousands of dollars to our
citizens. 1t is an assistance to
every body. All dairyman should
make it a point to patronize the
creamery, and not lose sight of the
fact that the running expenses oi
the creamery are practically the
same whether the quantity of milk
received be large or small. Conse
ouently. the larger the quantity re-