The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-22
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Miss Agnes Webber is the guest
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Mis-. Paaeie Pnrdy and daughter
esther afrtv@d 1'n.sssay from q t,o
months visit il Pot a ID.
J, After a brief visit with Corvallis
friends, Miss Adelaide Greff. is to re-
turn to PoItland today.
Mics Veda Jones of Ptinevifle is
in Corvallis for a time, the guest OF
Mrs. Sarah Moore.
Samuel Bolland of San francisco
left Thursday after visit OF few
days at the home Of Horace L exc.
w. P. Laff.rty and son arrived
Thursday evening from a visitto Bay
mond L. ffrrty at Cal abans, California.
Mrs. Kate Goff, Of Independence,
who came up to attend the Mason fun-
eral, is a guest for several days at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Hershner.
Services next Sunday morning and
evening at the United EvangeIical
church. Preaching at Mount View
scnotl house at 2 80 p. m.
ednesday, Sam King left at this
office a fous-inch stem bearing three
pounds oil plums. An extraordinary
fact IS that The fruit is exceptionally
large.
Lezzie King made two trips to
Corvallis this week as mail messenger
on The Westside. He successfully
passed the civil service examination
some time ago and is now getting well
into the work.
Beginning with Monday evening a
series OF Gospel services will be held
10 tabernacle, to be pitched near the
United Evangelical church. A mum.
Der OF ministers from the conference
district are expected to be present.
Corvallis friends of the family
have received the sad intelligence Of
the death OF Mrs. W. g. Cox at Port
land on the 11th of this month. In
terment occurred at Brownsville on
the 18th. RS
Rev. W. g. Kantner, for several
years pastor in Corvallis, and who
came to conduct the funeral service Of
the late Joshua Mason, returned to
his home in Salem yesterday.
J. K. Berry thinks he knows who is
digging potatoes in his garden on Sec
ond street between Adams and Wash
ington, but be offers SIS reward for
conclusive evidence. Somebody better
"look little out"
w. Conan of the traffic depart
ment of the Southern Pacific, arrived
on special train Thursday evening
and spent the night in this city, leav-
ing yesterday morning for other
points down the Westside. With a
party, Mr.. Conan has been on a tour
of Eastside towns.
Alfalfa, grown on the Bruce farm
is mentioned elsewhere. Samples of
both the firstsand second crop are to
be seen at the sTimes" office. Each
is well worth examination at the hands
of any farmers. Much ofathe first crop
IL five feet seven inches In height, and
the second crop, three feet ten inches.
"A meeting of the Northwest In
dian Ass ociation was Newport event
of Importance Tuesday. Eleven states
were represented and strong pro-
gram was presented. w. e. Yates, OF
this city, delivered an address on the
subject, "The Value of Good English"
The work was under the management
of Superintendent Campbell Of the
Chemawa Indiaa school.
BY the collapse of the false work of
q big bridge In Douglas county Zophir
Tharp, an o. 40. student and foot
ball man, Gust aimed injuries that will
keep him confined in bed for the next
two weeks. The accident happened
last Monday afternoon. Bert Pilking-
ton, o. A. C.'s champion fullback
and football captain, is member of
the gang that was building the bridge,
but was not, as was Tharp, carried
down with the structure. Tharp lost
nearly all his teeth, and sustained
several other injuries, none of which
are dangerous. Tharp's working mate
named Markham has his jaw and one
leg broken.
Alfalfa Is a thrifty crop again,
this season on the farm Of Major
James Bruce, 10 or IL miles south of
town, An eight-acre tract from which
three; abundant crops were cut last
year has been given up entirely to
pasture, and as such, is most pro-
life. On other plats about the house
a second crop, now three feet high
Is ready to cut. The first crop from
the same ground was four TO four and
a half feet high. Major Bruce says
the roots penetrate the ground to a
depth of 10 feet or more. He has no
doubt that alfalfa can be grown in al
most any ground where there Is not
clay soil for the roots to penetrate.
What the plant would do in such
ground. he does not pretend to say.
On the Bruce farm the roots go to