Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-02-28
LOCAL NEWS.

tUCA NfWS.
Miss Ethe Price, of the o A c
has been been quite i'll for the pas
week, but at last accounts was i'm
proving.
Wanted-By a thoroughly com
petent man, a position as book
keeper. Address P. o. Box 272
Corvallis, Or.
At the Corvallis Saw Mill for th,
present you can get good shingles
sor 81 40 per N. Also geod fenc
ingfor 81 per M.
We have enquiries from the Eas
for large stock ranches. What
have you for sale? Morgan & Eg
lin, The Leading Land Agents.
The Prineville journal is author.
ity for the statement that Mt. JEFF
ferson has been the victim ot
several spasmodic eruptlons lately
Groceries at Young's Cash Store
We still continue in Ladies' and
Fancy goods, Hats, Shoes and No
tions. Give US a call. Goods de
livered in city.
Mrs. J. A. Spangler, who is at
present in San Francisco visiting
with her son, Mart, is somewhat
improved in health and is having
an enjoyable time.
The cadet battalion of the o AC
now drills at the noon hour. This
necessitates a change in the class
hour OF many students and eight
o'clock in the morning comes all
too soon for some of them.
Henry Amber, the real estate
agent of Philomath, will be in Cor
wallis every Saturday. Parties
wishing to see him, can do so by
calling at the Occidental hotel, be-
tween the hours of Hand 1.
Tuesday evening, the Odd Eel
lows initiated J. E. Farmer, Elmer
Dinges and L. w. Grin into. the
mysteries of that order. They are
reported to have "faeed the music"
on this occasion like Romans.
Ms. G. HI. Pearse and son. Har-
ry, found the winter in Kansas
City, Mo-, altogether too severe for
them and have returned to San
Francisco to pass the remainder of
the winter. Mr.. Pearse is still at
Kansas City.
L. S. Stovall, a younger brother
of Dennis III. Stovall of our city,
has received an appointment to de-
liver lectures on the subject of an
archy in Texas and Oklahoma.
He is known in Texas as "Scottie,
the boy orator" Grants Pass
Courier.
The voters in Benton county will |
about 1000 this year. The
time for registration is one-third
gone and only a little more than
one-ffth of the voters had register
ed up to Tuesday evening. The
number registered by this time was
46O. Do voters want a chrome for
registering?
Albany is to have an opera house
srected in the near future. The
contract for constructing the same
has been awarded to John McChes-
ney, and the building was designed
by Chas. II. Burggraf, the we'll |
known architect. The contract has
until July 1st to complete the
The building will
have a seating capacity of between
700 and 800, and will cost, when
finished, upwards of $1,000.
Billy Williams, who introduced
smallpox into our neighborhood,
is doing nicely, but his mother and
stepfather, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Brown, who have been nursing him,
both have the disease. 1t is in a
mild form and the patients are able
to keep up and about the house.
There is one other case reported,
that of q logger who was employed
at c. X. Spaulding's camp on the
island above Corvallis a few miles
A strict quarantine is maintained
IN each instance and there is no
ground for the fear of some that it
will become widespread.
The death of Richard Fruit oc.
,urred early Tuesday morning at
The home of his uncle near Monroe.
Deceased was q highly respected
young man and was a member of
This years graduating class at o A
c. Some time ago his health failed
and he went to California in the
hope of benefitting his condition,
but it was fruitless hope and he
came home to await the worst.
His funeral occurred yesterday at
Pine Grove cemetery, near Peoria.
Rev. Humbert, of this city, re
sponded to the request that he
preach the funeral sermon.
An Oregon schoolma'am, who
teaches the "young idea how to
shoot" in one of the valley districts,
and who is known widely as a
shoice piece of feminine beauty and
tried a unique expert.
nent to prevent tardiness
If her pnpils, with good re-
,ults She made the nronoso1 In