Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-07-14
LOCAL NEWS.
hing tackle at Berry's.

from a two-days' visit at Newport
Get your scissors, knives, axes
scythes, lawn mowers, etc, grounc
at Berry's.
O. 7. Blackledqe and family lef
Saturday, for Fish Lake for q
months outing.
Harry Davis aud sister, Miss Ma
bel, went to Newport, Saturday, tc
spend the summer.
Mrs. !. Mccormack. of Browns
Vile, is visiting with Ter brother,
]. Mason, in this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. W. Fischer were
among those from this city who
enjoyed the excursion to Newport,
Sunday.
Mrs. Joseph Yates, daughter,
Nina, and Mrs. J. F. Yates left yes
terday for the Coast to spend the
summer.
John MCGEE is preparing to build
new residence On the farm re-
Gently purchased by MIN from Mrs.
John Burnett.
Manager E. Stone, Attorney W..
S. McFadden, M. NJ. Davis and AS
SCISSOR Bush were westward passen-
gers on Saturdays c. & E.
Have DR.. Lowe cure your head
and eye aches with pair Of his
superior glasses. Don't forget the
dates, July 18th to noon of the 18th.
Mrs. Will Ready (nee Cauthorn)
and children, of Portland, arrived
in Corvallis last Thursday for a
visit with Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Blu.
chanan.
Mr.. and Mrs. @. w. Evans en-
tertained a number of friends on
Thursday evening, last week in
honor of Miss Clara Fisher, of Cor
Wallis, who has been visiting in this
city.-Oregon City Enterprise.
DIR. James Withycombe is home
from Eastern Oregon, where he has
been conducting experiments and
making observations for the Ore
gon Experiment Station and Uni
ted States Department of Agricul-
ture.
The dairy project in Alsea, of
which the GAZETTE made mention
some weeks ago, has eliminated in
the fling of articles of incorpora-
tion of the Alsea Dairy Company,
with capital stock of 81 ,OOG. The
incorporators are W. III. Malone. J.
E. Banton and Jasper Hayden.
d. c. Rose goes to McMinnville
today to attend meeting of the
directors Of the Oregon Fire Relief
Association The Association now
has mem bership of $4,000, repre-
senting an insurance of twelve mil
lion dollars. Cal. Thrasher, local
agent, leaves today for Polk and
Ylmhill counties ON business for
the Association.
State Treasurer G. S. Moore has
compiled and issued his statement
of the receipts and disbursements
of his department for the six
months ending June 5Oth. The
report shows that there was bal
anee on hand January 1, 1908, of
$l,122,796.11; the receipts for the
six months amounted 1896, ,334. IS;
the disbursements to 81, ,O4O. .994 a
leaving a balance of 81 1878, 1876 AZ
on hand July 1, 1903.
According to the method of COM
putation INDUCED in by Portland
and Seattle, the population of Cor
Wallis must be near the 4, 900 mark.
It is claimed by the cities above
mentioned that population may be
determined by multiplying the mum.
Der of children of school age by five
A recent census shows the children
of school age in school district No.
9 to be $50. That would indicate
that the population of the district
is ,995.
A late invention in the form Of
filter has just been placed in their
ice cream and confectionery estab-
lishment by Small & Son, and it
works wonders with Willamette
river water. The filter is cylindri-
Cal in shape and is about foot il,
height by eight inches in diam
eter. Tho w.ter enters at the bot
tom, passes through cylinder of
Tr1poli stone and out at faucet,
clear and pure. Another faucet
emits the impurities taken from the
water.
The practice of closing business
houses at 6 o'clock every evening,
except Saturdays, begun some
weeks ago by local merchants,
seems to meet with popular ap-
proval. If Inconvenience is ex-
perienced by any, they appear to
suffer in silence rather than de-
prive the merchants and their