Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-01-17
W. a. Sanders. JeWe.er.

pital.
Burt Lacy has purchased th,
| Neal Newhouse property. Tn
price paid was 81. .125.
/ 0 B. Connor left on Wednesday
| bot for a brief trip to Salem OF
/ business connected with the o A C
Mr. johnson, recently of Saul!
lSt Marie, Mich, has arrived in Cor
Wallis and intends making this hi
home.
| F. Klecker was in from Alsea
Wednesday. He reports elegan
weather and prosperous times il
that valley. @
Regular services will be held al
the M. E. church Sunday morning
Miss Stafford. of the Y nj G A, will
deliver an address in the evening
Thomas Connell, of Portland, Wis
tied here yesterday with his cousin
J. r. Smith, On his way home from
a three-months' trip through the
East and South.
Miss Portia Knight, the actress
who sued the Duke of Manchester
for breach of promise, has settled
the suit out Of court for 5000.
Miss Knight is a former belle of
Salem, Oregon.
Milton Crawford, who lives three
miles east of Corvallis in Linn
county, has killed $50 gophers in
the last year. One hundred of
these were killed with gopher guns
and the remainder with poison.
At Peoria, Oregon, on the 18th
inst, at the home of the brides sis
ter, Mrs. U. G.. Berry, Mr.. J. w.
Lamar and Miss Ella Ridenour
were united in wedlock. They
were the recipients Of many hand
some gifts and a large circle of
friends extend congratulations.
Contractor Shook, who will build
the new horticultural hall at O A
G, has asked permission of the coun-
Gil to build spur of railroad from
a point near the carriage factory to
the site of the new hall. The street
committee of the council looked
over the proposed route of the spur
yesterday, and granted Mr.. Shook
permission to build. The work
will begin tomorrow and be COM
pleted in few days.
The deal for the purchase of the
Hotel Corvallis property has been
closed. AS stated in this paper, Mr..
Swanson, of Portland, had accepted
an offer for the sale Of the lots from
the Gerhard heirs and Philip Phile,
holders of the first leins, and de
posted $1lO to bind the bargain.
Mr.. Swanson had until the Goth Of
this month to approve the title,
Yesterday, a letter was received
from that gentleman approving the
title and closing the deal.
A lady living just east OF Corval- |
lis has demonstrated that there is
money in raising geese. Last year
she raised a band of 26. These were
plucked four times, yielding 20
pounds Of feathers, and these
brought IS cents per pound, or $15
for the lot. The birds were killed
and sold in the market yesterday. !
They weighed 234 pounds net and
brought 9 cents per pound, or $21.-
O6. Here is a profit of $36.O6 on
26 geese, or 81 .3S on each goose.
Gust Backus received from his
son-in-law, y. P. Peterson, of Cor
Oregon, two mounted Chi
nese pheasants, the prairie chicken
of the Pacific coast. The first of
these. fifty-two pair, we're imported |
from China about 80 years ago and
turned loose in the Willamette val
ley, about 80 miles north of Corval- !
lis. They are swilter to run and
fly than any other bird.-Oakland |
(Nebraska) Republican. The Chi
ha, or Jenny pneaSants, were HfSt !
brought to Oregon about 16 years
ago, and were liberated in Linn
county.
A meeting of the members of the
May Festival Chorus and others
occurred at the college
chapel last Tuesday evening. The
attendance was large. The COM
mittee appointed to secure books,
that the music house from
which they had been ordered had |
been unable to I'LL the order imme-
diately, but the books are expected |
to arrive any day. A lecture by
MIR. Wallis Nash, previous to prac-
tice, had been announced, and |
many came especially to avail
themselves of this treat. Mr..
Nash spoke on the subject OF "The
Festival Music and Its Composers"
No one in the state is better fitted |
by study and experience to treat |
this subject, and Mr.. Nash delight
ed ali who listened to his scholarly
a ddress.
"The Village parson."
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