Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-02-17

Monday, owing to the serious illness
of his father.
The First Spiritual Union of Cor.
wallis, will hold services at Barrett
E.yceum cn Sunday, at 3 p. m. AL
friends cordially invited.
Professor Hawley, of Salem, will
deliver a lecture on THE Making
Of The Declaration of Independence
at the M. e. church next Friday
evening. The doors will be open
at s O'Clock. Admission will be
made by tickets, which wilt be
complementary.
The farmers Of the Luckia ute
country are making arrangements
to establish "a rural telephone line,
A company will be Incorporated at
once with capital stock Of 1880,
and work on The line will begin
soon. The line will run from Su-
yer to Monmouth. by way of Airlie
and Lewisville. The company will
start out with about 35 phones, and
an effort will be made to extend the
line to Corvallis.
Mrs. Ruth N. Clark, deputy or
ganizer Of the D. of FL of Corvallis,
who had been visiting for several
days during the week with Mrs.
Taft, left Tuesday evening for va
quina where she expects to organ
ize Degree of Honor lodge. From
thence she will go to Toledo in the
interests of the lodge at that place.
During Der visit at the beach Mrs.
Clark found five fine warer agates.
News.
Instructor Pritchard had an ex-
citing experience in the machine
shop at the college one day last
week. He was working at lathe
when the sleeve of his jumper got
caught in the machinery. He
braced himself to prevent being
thrown on the machine, and his arm
was stripped of clothing and burned
by the friction of belt with which
it came in contact. A student saw
Mr.. Prltchard's danger, and stopped
the machinery before any serious
injury was inflicted.
The big plant of the Benton
County Lumber Company, put its
machinery in operation last Satur-
day preparatory to the seasons
run. Yesterday, workmen began
boxing the lumber for the seven
mile fuue, which will float lumber
from the mill to Philomath. A tel
ephone line will follow the route Of
the flume, and will place the mill
in communication with Philomath.
Efforts are making to have the line
extended to the store at Alsea. This
can be done at small cost, and will
be of great convenience to the resi-
dents of that section.
The vaudeville bills given at the
Opera House last Friday and Sat-
urday evenings, by the Weston &
Herbert company, were as clever
and meritorious performances as
have been seen at the local play
house this season. While the COM
pany played to small houses, ow-
ing to the special counter attrac-
tions at The college, no act was
sighted and the complete bill was
given. Every performer is an ar
tist in his line, and the entertain
ment is clean and free from any
thing Objectionable. The midget
Bragdon is the stellar attraction.
No more clever performer, old or
young, has visited this city.
Mr.. Cramer, of the Corvallis car.
riage and wagon factory, is in the
city. Mr.. Cramer came up on busi-
ness concerning the proposed re-
moval of the factory to Eugene. He
went out to the Walker Young farm
yesterday TO interview Mr.. Young
about site for the factory which it
is proposed to purchase. While as
yet arrangements for the removal of
the plant to this city are not COM
pleted, Mr. Cramer says that every
thing IS moving along favorably in
that direction. The only thing nee
essary to put q elinch-r on the pro-
ject is the hearty encouragement of
the people of Eugene who will there
by obtain another valuable industry
for the town.-Register.
The first basketball game be
tween teams representing U Of O.
and o A c was played at the COL
lege armory last Saturday evening
and resulted in victory for the
farmers By a score of 30 to 2. The
visitors played clean, strenuous
game, but they were no match for
the local five. Few fouls were COM
mitted, but two points being made
from free throws. GA G made 10
baskets in the first half, and the
university one. This ended the
scoring for the lemon, white the