Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-12-13

in the city visiting friends.
Henry Amber, Of Philomath,
was in town Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. L. Hartley were
Albany visitors last week.
Mr.. Leese of the Willame tie
Valley Bank of this city, returned
from a visit to Toledo Saturday.
All members of the Maccabees
are requested to attend lodge
Wednesday evening, as there will
be election of officers and initiation.
Hon. John D. DAILY, formerly
of this city but now of Portland,
was here Saturday and Sunday on
business.
The Edison gold-moulded record
costs only 35c. Photographs $40,
500, $50 and $50 and are the best
on earth, at Whitney's, South Main
street.
Surdatay morning shaft was
twisted in two down at the saw
mill, which compelled the mill to
oe shut down until repairs could be
made.
Mr.. Foss and wife, who own a
fine farm near Albany, have been
visiting their old time friends, Mr..
and and Mr.. John Schuldt in this
city Saturday.
Buy Christmas Goods at E w.
S. Pratt, the jeweler and optician,
and get a ticket with each dcllar's
worth. The lucky person gets a
$50 diamond ring.
Mr.. Arnold, of the bicycle firm of
Dilly' & Arnold, has been overhaul
ing the engine and boiler used in
the GAZETTE office, and has made
them work like a charm )"
E. W. S. Pratt, the jeweler and
optician of Corva Ills, Oregon, will
give to the holder of the lucky
number $50 diamond ring. One
number given with each dollar's
worth of goods bought between
Dec. 5, 'O4 and Jan. 5, 'O5.
Bellfountaln Grange No 227,
will hold its annual meeting for the
election of officers next Saturday.
1t is thought that one or two good
speakers will be present from a dis
tance, who will endeavor to enliven
the interest in that order.
Mordaunt A. Goodnough, prin-
cipal of the piano department in
the Western Academy of Music at
Portland, was in town Saturday
and Sunday, on a business trip
He says Messrs. Paul and Turney,
former Corvallisites, who are teach
ing in the Academy, are getting
along fine and making many friends.
Judge G. G.. Kinds, one of the
prominent visitors at the poultry
show, left Saturday for his home at
Alameda, Calf. He is very high
in his praise of the pioneer poultry
show, and says it was one of the
most successful shows he has at.
tended, the birds as whole being
as fine a lot as he ever saw to-
gether.
There is on exhibition at Amber
& Waters real estate Office two
beets, that are, perhaps as large or
larger than any ever before raised
in this country. The largest
weighs 47 pounds, and the other
one will weigh at least 40 pounds.
They were raised in what is called
white land, by Mr.. Dilley near
Shedd Station. There seems to be-
no limit to the size of anything
grown in the Willamette valley.
A basket social will be given at
Central School, Dist. No. so on the
night of December %, 1904. A
fine program, under direction of
the teacher Miss Edna B, Thomson,
will be rendered by the pupils, be-
ginning at s o'clock, aft n which
will come the social. Instead of
selling baskets, as is usually done,
shadows will be sold. The pro-
ceeds will be used for the benefit of
a school library. A cordial invi-
tation is extended to all, and the
ladies are invited to bring baskets.
There was a sort of free-for-all
fight on Main street Thursday night.
A crowd of young toughs became
involved in a heated argument as
to each ones ability to slick" any
other man in the crowd, and as
words failed to express emphatically
enough their confidence in them
selves, they proceeded to give a
practical illustration In which fists