Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-08-07
LOCAL NEWS.

City council meets next Monday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. A. Cummings
are enjoying season a5 Nye Greek
D. NJ. Smith and S. Jackson and
son left, Wednesday, for fishing
trip to Alsea.
Mr.. A. G. White is still confined
to his room with severe attack OF
rheumat tism.
Hon. Claude Catch and daughter,
of Salem, were passengers to New
port On Tueaday's G. & E.
Editor Gault and wife, of Hills
boro, passed through Corvallis,
Tuesday, en- route for Newport.
Mrs. Greenberg, nee Bertha Neu-
gass, and son, of San Francisco,
are visiting relatives in this city.
Mrs. e. M. Simpson is expected
home Sunday from her visit in Cali
fornia at the home of her parents.
Dave Irvine and family, of Sa-
le,p, were passengers to Newport,
Tuesday. They formerly resided
in Corvallis.
Rev. H. A. Deck, who is in Port
land having his eyes treated, ex-
poets to be home in time to occupy
his pulpit next Sunday.
Col. J. K. Philips left yesterday
for a vacation of ten or twelve days,
during which time he will visit
with his daughter at NeWberg.
Victor Spencer is home from
Portland on a two-weeks' visit with
his parents. He still has employ
rnent III the drug store of W. S.
Love.
DR.. and Mrs. Withycombe went
to Alsea, Wednesday, to join their
sons, Harry and Earl, who are en-
joying an outing in that delightful
valley.
E. B. Horning and family, Mrs.
Canaan, Mrs. John Burnett, Rev
and Mrs. Green, are among the
many Corvallisites now enjoying
vacation at Cascadia.
Mrs. S. T. Kerr vert to Salem,
Wednesday, to be at the bedside of
her daughter, Mrs. Frank Bower
sox, who has been quite i'll for the
past three weeks with typhoid fever.
Frank Taylor and family, of
Blodgett Valley, have gone to Sill
Yer Lake, Or, and will make that
place their residence. MIR. Taylor
has taken charge of the Silver Lake
Hotel.
7. H. Harris and family left for
Cascadia, Wednesday, accompanied
by Ms. Punderson Avery. Alex
Campbell preceded them with their
camping outfit, leaving the day
before.
The excursion to \ export, We'd
nesday, given under the aus
pices of the Presbyterian church of
Albany, proved quite popular.
About $50 tickets were sold. Of
this number, Sc were Corvalisites.
The number of patients in the
Oregon Insane Asylum, July 81,
1903, was 1888. Of this number
939 are males. The financial re-
port of the board of trustees shows
that $6,31619 was expended for
supplies during the month of July.
A ton of cream was received at
the Corvallis Creamery. Tuesday,
from Halsey. The product of the
dairy ranches of that vicinity,
amounting to several thousand
pounds per week, will be broug ght
to Corvallis to be converted into
butter.
An enjoyable event was the soci-
able given at Plymouth church last
Saturday evening, by the Endeavor
Society. A short literary and mu-
sical program was rendered, at the
conclusion of which ice cream and
cake was served. The proceeds,
amounting to $3775, will be ap-
piled to retitting the church.
The cool weather of the past
month has retarded the ripening of
grain, and harvest this year is
about two weeks later than usual.
Reports from various sections of
the valley indicate that the yield of
wheat will be quite satisfactory.
Thos. Cooper was in town, Tues
day, and he states that the '.straw
fall'' is unusual in his gram this
year, going to show that the heads
are full and heavy. Threshing will
begin on his place about the first of
the week.
Dennis Stovall, former Corvallis
boy, now a resident of Grants Pass,
is coming to be recognized as an
authority on matters Dertaininp to