Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-09-08
LOCAL NEWS.

LOCAL NEWS.
Mrs. NJ. S. Woodcock and family
have returned from their outing al
Sulphur Springs.
We do all kinds of printing, and
we make q specially of doing il
right.
Glen Gillett, of this city, 1pent
his vacation with his sisters
Mrs. Ed Stanton and Miss Hattie
at Toledo. He returned Monday
Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Wicks, who
were married Sunday, in Corvallis
have been in Portland on their
wedding trip.-Portland Telegram.
Walter Mcfarland. the popular
drummer, and Miss Cora Baker
were married Thursday at the home
of the brides father, J. W. Baker.
in Cottage Grove.
Geo. B. Ready, Otto Herse and
Prof. J. B. Horner. returned FRI
day from a three.days' hunting trip
to Alsea. The Professor and Otto
are each to be credited with deer
apiece.
J. c. Bennett, from Shelby, Polk
county, Nebraska, is visiting in
Philomath, at the house of his son,
G. A Bennett. He is looking for q
location, and proposes to try farm
Ing in Benton county.
Mrs. D. J. Jenkins, of Yaquina,
went to Corvallis last Wednesday
morning, returning in the evening
Her niece who has been visiting
her was returning to her home at
Walla Walla"- Lincoln County
Leader. naF
Work has commenced on the
lateral sewerer leading south from
Jefferson street through the alley
between the residences of Mrs. P. O.
Wilson and Neil Newhouse. The
sewer will extend through two
blocks.
The contractors on the lateral
sewer find that 1t is hard to get men
to do the excavating and as con-
sequence the pric, of labor has ad-
vanced. They are now paying
$3.50 for nine hours and men are
hard to get at that price.
Hop contracts executed in July
were filed in Salem, September 8,
by T. A. Liveslay & Co., covering
The R. F. Meyer & Sons crop of
10000 bales, near Jefferson, at 154
cents, and the L J. Mascher crop of
20 bales, near Silverton, at Is cents.
-Oregonian.
Silverside salmen are corumenc-
ing to run into the bay at Newport
and quite number have been
ought with trolls Salmon troll.
ing is one of the finest sports i'm
aginable. Now is the time for peo.
pie who go to the seashore for real
pleasure, rather than to see and be
seen, to take their vacatian at the
Bay.
Eight young people from the im-
mediate neighborheod of Simpsons
Chapel attended the O. A. C. last
year. Fifteen will attend the COM
ing year. If this is to be an index
of the way they are to come from
all localities the capacity of tae
college will be taxed to its utmost.
Attendance at chapel exercises in
the little old chapel will hardly be
made obligatory.
The well borers have met with
success in their efforts to obtain
water at the College, having just
completed a well to the depth Of
1l6 feet and obtaining flow Of
water amounting to about 500 gall
Ions per hour. Several more wells
will be bored Immediately. The
we'll is bored two inches in diane
ter but is effective and cheaper than
a dug we'll would be.
George L. Paul, who has been
connected with the CORVALLIS GA
zETTE in various capacities during
the past twelve years, has severed
his connection Herewith and will
try his luck in San Francisco. We
always thought there was little
something the matter with George,
and now we have the proof just
think of it Trading Oregon for
California l-Lincoln Comfy Leader.
The board of engineer officers
convened by authority IF the War
Department, to consider the i'm.
provement of Yaquina bay en-
trance, will meet in the hall at
Newport, Oregon, September Is,
1903, at II a. m. All persons i'm
terested are requested to be present
and to submit their views in writ.
ing as regards the necessity and ad
visibility of further work at this
locality.
A hop contract by which Joseph
Johnson, of Needy, agrees de.
liver to FL. J. Miller, of Aurora,
1000 pounds of this years crop at
IL cents per pound, was filed in the
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