The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-05-23
big track and fisld meet this az

| ternoon.
Ed Dunn returned Wednesday
from business trip to Portland.
Mrs. W. Washburn arrived yes
terday from Brownsville, on visit to
her father, Caleb Davis.
| -Atthe annual election Of officers
beld~at the o. OF O. Wednesday, Ray
Goodrich was elected president of the
student BODY,
/ Christian church, Tomorrow at
| o'clock the subject will be he Value
OF Memorials" Evening lecture, 'The
| Idesl Young Womap."
An adjourned erm of the ccmmis-
| sioners court was held Thursday. Be-
cause suffering with an attack oi
M asles, Commissioners Erwin was un-
able to attend.
-United Evangelical church: Sun
day at La. H.; theme. "Is life wort
livine?' At s p. M, "The Unburied
Dead" Witham's school house at 8
| p. %. I& -l
The county road roller, which has
been in use on the Albany road, Tass-
ed through town y's erday. on the
way to the Cooper dis trict, West OF
| town.
The socialists held a political
NEE ting al the Court house Tuesday
evening. Addresses were delivered
by M. W. Viking, national organizer
oe Tnh W
didase for congress.
Burns Dick and family of five left
Wednesday for Stafford county, Kan
sas, to reside. They arrived 10 Ben
ton about March 1sr this year, but
failed to fall sufficiently in love with
the country, to pitch their tents !. in
this section.
Eugene Register: John McGee,
of Corvallis, an cid timer of SO years
age, Is 10 Eugene on business. He has
purchased of Mrs. Travis 20S acres Of
land three aud half miles west Of
Junction and will place his son 10
charge and with his wife will make
Eugene his future home.
There are hopes outlat the college
that Jackson may break the Northwest
intercollegiate te record in the shotput
In the meet this afternoon. In the
Forest Grove meet last week, he put
the sphere SO feet four inches, and in
practice since has raised his record to
40. He has also during the week,
thrown the hammer 108 feet. The
Northwest inter- collegiate record In
the shotput is Al feet. three inches,
made by Sanders OF Chemawa.
"A two-acre tract north of the col
lege and west of Heizig's place has
been purchased by L. B. Baker and
Marie Huntington, new arrivals. On
the tract there is four-room house.
The price paid Is $500. The sale was
made by F. P. Morgan. The owner
was Mrs. g. L. Hickland who, with
her son came out from Oklahoma
about year ago. Later the son re-
turned to Oklahoma and the mother
has been for some time with friends
near Portland.
The newly elected ficers Of the
city assume their positions on the first
Monday In June. The retiliug coun-
ell holds meeting on the evening of
that day. The new council It's first
meetipg on the second Monday In
June. The new council will be com
posed Of the following members: 1et
waTd, Rose, Avery !. and Porter; I'd
Ward, Crees, Cameron and Taylor: Sd
ward, .Henkle. Hodes and Colbert.
Five members, a majority Of the coun-
Gil, are newly elected, an instance that
rarely happens.
.ff-Thereis every reason to expect
thet the athletic meet on ,thetO. A. @.
field this afternoon will be very close
ly contested. d Both4teams are strong
and both ate{ in the best condition,
each, however, having man or two
more or less handicapped. o. A. O..
In particular sustains loss Ia Swamp,
who sprained one arm in the Forest
Grove meet and the other in practice
on the home field this week, and will
not be ahle4to fake part. He Is & ac-
counted the best pole-yaulter at o. Al. G.
/ Eugene Guard: The Guard yes
terday stated that the track meet be-
tween the teams. of the q. o. and o. A.
@. would probably not be held. Last
night Manager Earl was successful in
arraigning for the meet and the local
team will go down to Corvallis Friday
afternoon accompanied by. Trainer
Ray and Manager Earl. The follow
ing is the personel OF the team which
will be sent Policy. Perkins, Penland,
Merchant, Mckinney, Veatch, Render-
son, Lewis, Sergeant Williams Thayer
and Payne.
From all accounts the italian
prune crop Is to be short this season |
in some Of the orchards In the south
ern portion of Benton. Albert Zierolf \
who owns a 12-acre prune orchard
there was in town Thursday. About
half bis orchard is Italians, and he ]
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