The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-01-14
-Miss Rose Price returned to hel
home near Albany Saturday,

-Miss Rose Price returned to her
home near Albany Saturday,
Nv. H. Lash arri, ed for few
days'visit with friends.
Revival meetings every night this
week at the Evangelical church.
Services begin at 7-30 p m. 3
-Miss Cara Wilson entertained a
aan4osr n ...~aas .. at her home Sat-
| urday evening. The evening was
pleasantly spent In games, after which
dainty refreshments were served. j
Milton P. Morgan of the Gazette
| force, left Sunday for Hillsboro where
he assumes control and management
Of the HiIlsboro Independent
Mr. and Mrs r E Gibson, who
left couple Of weeks ago for Calf
| ornia' with possible view Of locating
there. have been heard from at Los
| Angeles, where they will remain for
the present. 80 +
| The petition of the girls at the
State University to play basket ball
has been denied at that institution,
on the grounds that no suitable build
ing is available and that girls playing
are liable to injury.
Local millers announced an ad-
| vance Of two cents In the price of
wheat Monday. Firmer markets all
round are responsible for the change.
Even at the higher figure practically
no wheat Is changing hands.
Albany Democratic Linn and
Benton will take the bridge and run it
free bridge is the proper thing. but
il the city of Albany has to pay the
expenses Of keeping it, toll bridge
is a necessity. That is the situation
In nut shell and We might as we'll
face the music.
| Albany Democrat-There Is
some talk of move@to take a part of
Benton county opposite Albany and
attach 1t to Linn county, and part Of
Linn county opposite Corvallis and
attack Ii to Benton county. but this
| will probably never be done except on
paper, though there may be some
good features to the proposition.
The first meal Is to be served at
noon today at the new City. Restaur-
ant. :. It will be chicken dinner,
and will ready for the public at noon.
The proprietor Is @. W, Lederle, for
merly 10 the same business at Seattle
Washington. Rooms In the Hemphilt
building have been newly furnished
and fitted up for the new establish
ment. The proprietor's announce
ment Is to be seen elsewhere.
Albany Democrat-Russell Wall
lace has been elected manager of the
football team for this year. and Leslie
Wire manager of the track team. |
On account of dissin9 gushing them
selves at football, Pearl Jarvis, John
Griffith, Ray Grow, George Dickinson,
Frank Mcbride, Oliver RowelI, Harold /
Rumbaugh, James Thompson and
John Brund have been allowed to
wear big A.
"A paragraph going the rounds of
the newspapers must be sending cold
chills up the backs of beer drinkers;
1truns thus, According to statistics
Of life insurance companies, a. man at
90 years OF age who does not drink /
beer, may reasonably expect to reach |
the age of 61..H he Is a beer dtinket !
he will probably not live over 3d., Ii
he Is 80 years when he begins to drink
beer, he will probably drop off some
where between 40 and 45, instead OF
living to the age of "a, as otherwise
he should" Apparently the figures |
are too strenuous to be wholly re- |
liable.
The steamer Leona, which has
been hauling wheat from upper river
warehouses to the local mills for sew
eraI weeks past, left down the river
Saturday afternoon, and will<lhot re-
turn till there is better stage of |
water for upper river navigation. She
brought down all the wheat from the /
Peoria warehouse, brought two boat
loads from Cummings, two from
Finley 8. one from Jackson's and one
from Bonneville. For the latter q
ten foot stage OF water is required,
and the owners are wondering Ii |
future freshets of this winter or spring
will make that warehouse accessible
The proposed new grade for the
Corvallis ferry was the subject Of a
verbal report to the council Monday
night. A written report, granting
authority to the council to build the /
grade had been written out and sign-I
ed by allmembers of the street com.
mittee. but by mistake Chairman
HenkIe had left 1t at home. The
councilmen took no action on the |
matter, preferring to walt for the /
written report. As all three members