Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-04-15
w. A. Sanders, Jewe.er.

D. s. Adams returned, Saturday,
from Buena Vista, where~he visited
his daughter, Mrs. H. L. Hall.
A. Weitman, architect and bull d
er, has opened a workshop in the
Hodes bu ilding, three doors north
of the Hotel Corvallis.
Fred Oberer came up from his
mill near Airlie, Saturday. Mr..
Oberer states that everything is
progressing nicely with the Charter
Oak Mill Company. Fred return
ed to the mill, Sunday.
Friday, J. H. Moore sold his city
residence to Arthur Simpson,:.late of
South Dakota. The price paid was
$4,000. Later he sold his house
hold furniture to the new conner.
Mr.. Simpson has his wife and
daughter with him.
The Feronians entertained the
Amicitians. Friday evening, at the
home of Miss Mildred Linville. The
two o A C societies had an enjoya-
BILE evening playing games and in
dulging in conversation. Delicious
refreshments were served.
A Salvation Army man was in
the city esterday collecting self de-
nial funds for the Army. S. A.
men only come to Albany as visit
ors, the support here having been
so poor as to make it a poor field
for the army, the work of which is
covered by the Embellishments.
William Schmidt, of Roseburg,
recently took unto himself wife.
We are informed that last week the |
bride and groom were in Portland
on their honeymoon. The groom is
well known in this city. He is a
son of C. Schmidt, who formerly
run the Occidental hotel in this
city.
Ivan Daniel is still with the
Weidemann company. He is a
member of the orchestra and band
of that organization, and writes
that he is teaching class in har-
mony; the members of the class
are the musicians of the company.
The Weideman company is billed to
appear in Eugene about June 1st,
and Ivan hopes to make brief
visit honoa at this time
C. A. Riddle and wife left yes
terday for Vancouver where Mr..
Riddle has purchased the Register
Democrat of Thurston Daniels who
has conducted the paper for 21
years. This paper is a week y
seven colum folio and is one of the
best papers in that part of the
Claude is a first class
man and is bound to {
make a success of it.-Eugene Reg
ister. |,
Austin Lafferty, Corvallis, Ore, L
has raced his horses for the past
few years in the Missouri circuit
and handled such good ones as
Heller Shelter 2:1e4, Hondoris 2:28 !
and others writes that he is now {
a string of five green !
ones, among them Robert H., that
would have taken a record at 2:15 ,
had it not been for an attack of
listemper. All his horses are in
fine shape.-Horseman. L
Business is'pretty good at the Cor ,
Wallis Creamery. There is an
average of about 800 pounds of
butter made every day. They ;
churn once a day. Generally
about 200 gallons of cream is churn-
ed at a time. Butter is low at
present, being worth in the neigh
borhood of is cents per pound. I
This all gives a market for our
1airymen and from $45 to $50 per
day is distributed at present and +
when the prices are higher cor c
respondingly larger sum will be
distributed daily. This gives
about $500 per week to the dairy
men or upwards of $1,000 per
month. In the course of a year The
amount that finds its way into the I
hands of dairymen reaches into the {
of dollars. The butter {
is nearly all shipped to Portland. ]
Last Wednesday they churned I
twice at THIS creamery and made
743 pounds of butter. The roads .
are now getting better and more
milk will come to town. This is a ,
great industry for town and coun-
try and should receive every en- G
Friday was Arbor Day and was .
observed with fitting exercises at ,
the public schools of Corvallis. =,
This is day that is being more
observed each year. and I
it is we'll that 1t should be, as it t
teaches a lesson to the young that
is not easily forgotten. In his let
ter to teachers, Prof. J. H. Acker-
man, Superintendent of Public In.
struction, says: Let US make Ar
Dor Day red letter day in our {
school year, but let us not fix up
on this as the Ii nit of our response .