The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-11-11

u6T0 ABOUT uV6 IeeC as q res dlG OI Tue
recent rains, being now at boating
stage. The steamer Pomona was to
have arrived last night.
-Mrs. Jos. Garrow, who has been
visiting in Corvallis a couple of weeks
went to Salem Tuesday to spend a
brief time with friends. From there
she returns to her home at Sims, Gal.
Charley Chipman arrived Monday
from Sisson where he has been en-
! ployed as timekeeper for railway re-
pair gang under supervision OF Viii
liam Seeker. Mr.. Chapman may de-
eide to remain with his family here.
Monday there was on exhibition
In front of Chipman's restaurant a
quantity of fresh oysters from the
Cult of Mexico. They are OF enor-
nous size and of excellent flavor.
Shipment Is made in large buckets to-
gether with ice.
Mics Josie Garrow, who has been
visiting her aunt, Mrs. E. J. Garrow,
aud other Oregon relatives during the
past three months, begins her home
ward journey next Friday. She visits
for time at Spokane before che pro-
ceeds to her home In Wisconsin.
The Whitaker hop crop, consist-
ing OF 81 bales OF 200 pounds each,
was shipped to Portland Tuesday by
Ben Woldt Tor Faber & Neis. All the
other hops produced In this locality
have now been sold and shipped ex-
cepting the Osburn- Beach product and
Alex Campbell's crop.
-Sixteen-foot walks have been con-
structed from the east and west en-
traces of the new school building to
the street. There is no city walk to
connect with on the west eide Of the
block on which the new building Is sit.
uated. but a walk Is to be laid across
the street TO make direct connection
between the new and the old school
buildings. This will form a conven-.
lent approach to the west entrance OF
the new structure.
20. P. Hoff, commissioner of labor
of Oregon, is In town, looking up mat
ters pertaining to his Office. His posi-
tion Is creation of the last legisla-
tare, and the appointment is by the
governor, secretary OF state and state
treasurer. After the present term,
the Office will be elective, the same as
other state officers. There Is salary
and an allowance Of $500 per year for
travelling expenses, The present en-
cumbent is an estimable gentleman,
and level-headed representative OF
the interest Of labor.
Information regarding the hop
crop of this section enables the
"Times" to give the following estimate
of the quantity produced by the vari.
Gus growers: Beach & Ooburn 1876
bales, James Cooper 25, 8. N. Lilly
275, James Heron 40, Dodge 55, Will
helm 40, John Whitaker 81, Lon Hen.
kle SO, Richard Dunn 81, Townsend
Bros. so, Wilson Bump 100, Charles
Winters 1872. Prices ranged from Is
to % cents per pound, the hops under
contract bringing the smallest price.
almost all the growers excepting.
those under contract, refused offers Of
25 cents.
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new school house. Miss Kerns pre-
sides in the south-west room on the
lower floor and has charge OF q por-
tions of the first grade, numbering 40
pupils. Miss Fullerton occupies the
south-eas room with the higher clas-
ses of the first grade and lower classes
of the second grade, numbering 81
pupils. The lighting. heating, and
ventilatiug arrangements Of the rooms
are excellent. Heat for the present,
is furnished by stove In each room.
Fresh air, is admitted through pipes
extending from the outside to floor
CRATES directly under the stoves. En-
tirely surrounding the stoves, distant
about four inches, are solid sheet-iron
screens These are intended to con-
fine the incoming fresh air near the
stoves, so that 1t will be warmed be-
fore becoming disseminated through
out the rooms. This warm fresh air
is calculated to drive out the cooler
foul air through apertures provided for
the purpose. Carpenters began con-
struction OF the woodwork of the new
building on the first day of September.
Cool weather has enabled the
teachers to test the efficiency OF the
old school buildings heating plant
since the plumbing was overhauled
under direction of Charles Ewart, arch
itect OF the old as well as of the new
school house. A given amount OF
steam will now produce at least three
times as much heat as for several
years past. The principal difficulty
came from the setting OF the building
without an exact corresponding settle
ment OF steam pipes. The radiators
and pipes became tipped 80 that the
water from condensed steam would
not flow to the outlets provided. AS
a consequences they became blocked at