The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-06-27
DILLY's GUM


It Must be Brought Back Finding Sill
ver-Gone to Heppner-A Wedding.
Miss Elva Washburn of Browns
vile is visiting relatives in this city.
George Brunk spent week in
Corvallis visiting his brother II.
M. Baunk and exchanging greet
ings with many friends. He retur-
ned to Polk county Thursday.
A gentleman took a gun from
Dilly's shop two weeks ago, prob
ably through mistake, but does not
bring it back. Di11y expects him
to return it without delay. Other
wise there is trouble in store for
him.
The Ladies Aid society Of the
North Palestine Baptist church at
Wells, will give an ice cream social
and fair at North Palestine church
Tuesday evening June goth at 7.3o
O'Clock p. m. A good program
consisting of vocal and instrument
tai music, recitations etc will be
rendered. Also many useful arti-
cles will be disposed of. Come
everybody and lend a helping hand
to the society. By order of the
society.
Invitations are out for the mar
riage of Miss Bertha Henkle and
Mr. Will McCu1lom, which is to
take place at the home of the brides
parents, in this city next Wednes-
day at II o'clock. Mr.. McCu1lom
was formerly student at OAC.
and his home is at Athena, Eastern
Oregon. Miss Henk1e is the es-
timable daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Lee Henk1e of Corvallis.
A strike of telephone inemen,
involving nearly all the wire oper-
atives on the coast has been ordered
and 5000 men are out. In most
of the Valley towns in Oregon the
local linemen are in the movement,
but in Corvallis Linemen Merrill
and Brown are still at work. An
advance in wages is asked for. The
strikers claim that ultimately the
Office employees may be brought in
to the struggle. A prolonged
strike will result in great 1nconve-
nienceto the telephone-using public,
: Mrs. Wills and son Reuben, left
Monday for Heppner, where the
work of rehabilitating the home
that was demolished in the recent
flood, is in progress. Mr.. Wills
who was in Corvallis with his
family when the Heppner calamity
fell, and who left at once for the
scene, has written that he is finding
the contents of the home scattered
all over the Valley traversed by the
swollen waters. Mrs. Wills and
son are making the trip by private
conveyance. and expect to be 10
days on the road.
There is streak of silver under
the sidewalks on Main street.
Small boys know about it, and
every time walk is repaired, they
are present in numbers to gather up
the precious stuff. The deposit is
small coins, dropped in the course
of
valuable enough to tear up. the
walk to recover. During the re-
newal Thursday of walk in front
of Huston & Bogue's hardware
store an even dollars worth of small
coins was picked MP by the work
men and such lads as happened
along. The largest of the coins was
quarter.
All of the graduates in this years
class from OAC pharmacy depart
ment either have places in drug |
stores, or have had positions offer
ed them. All, likewise have pas
sed the State examination. Mill
hol1en has a position in a Port |
land pharmacy and so has Bur
nough. A. L. Thornton is in
Frye's drug store in Salem, and !
May6eld has place in an Eastern
Oregon store. Walter Wells is
temporarily working at Aliens
pharmacy, in Corvallis, but has
offers of two positions, one in Port
land and another in Eastern Ore
gon. The high reputation of the
OAC school of pharmacy and the
scarcity Of pharmacists account for
the condition.
Acauaintauces are pleased to see