The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-07-20

IF. B. Oyerlander has been ap-
pointed deputy game warden for this
county.
Miss Edna Irvine is expected
home today from visit at the Stei-
! wer home near Jefferson.
-E. F. Peroot spent Sunday with
bis family in their new cottage at Nye
Creek.
The date in the address on your
"Times" tells how your subscription
stands. Look at it.
Mrs. J. o. Sutton of Salem, is
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. T..
Barnhart, In this city.
The Appleeate-Smith party re-
turned Monday from Alsea, having
killed one lone deer during the outing
In that section.
After a visit since Commencement
with her parents, Mrs. Bertha Henkle
McCullom leaves Friday for her home
at Athena.
Meeting of the W. G. T. q. at the
Reading Room parlors tomorrow a.
3 p. N. All are cordially invited.
Mr.. and Mrs. M L. Adams aud
daughter left Saturday to spend few
days at Yaquina.
The grand lodge of the A. o. o
W. is in session 10 Portland. jesse
Spencer ard Fred Clark are delegate
from the local lodge. They left for
Portland Monday.
The five-year-oId child of H. Mel
SOD, who resides in Kings Valley, died
Monday. The interment occurred yes
ttrday in the Kings Valley cemetery.
Mr.. Nelson is late arrival In the
county. =
The first Oregon peaches seen in
the local market this year were on
display at the Hodes grocery Monday.
They came from the C. Stone orchard
across the river, and were of the early
Alexander variety.
Mamma" said the pretty fluffy
haired girl, 81 think I ought to go to.
cooking school, don't you?" at isn't
necessary my DEAR" replied the moth
er, II cap teach you to cook" 'sBut
that would Reverdo, mamma" protest
ed the fair daughter, "you only know
how to COOK the ordinary things that
people really eat"
"A drive to Albany ard return in
the evening is a popular amusement
among Cervallisites. Among those
who made the trip Monday evening
were, Mabel Sheasgreen, Louis r.
win, Edna Thrasher, John Sutherland,
Beszie Shobe, of Oregon City; Rose
Chapman, Archie Van Cleve and Bush
Davis.
They say Henry G.. Davis, nearly
81, is too old to run for the vice -pl esi-
dency of the United States. Yet he
was, in case of the latter's nomir alton,
to manage Gorman's campaign. Who
is it, though, that says he is too old?
Who, but people who can find no 9TH
er flaw to pick?
"A surprising number of improve
ments are in progress about town just
at present. Numerous new residences,
cross walks new, with needed loads of
gravel dumped on either side; new
barns, with fresh coats of paint, new
woodsheds, additions to residences,
new roofs, new porehes, new fences,
and many other improvements make
one believe that Corvallis is in earnest
10 it's declaration that a general clean
up Is now on.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Clark were
passengers Monday for Portland,
where Mr.. Clark goes as a delegate
to the grand lodge of the A. o. q. W.
After the session Is over, Mr.. and Mrs
Clark go to Baker City for a camping
trip In the Blue Mountains with their
son Merit and family. They will be
absent several weeks,
With the publicity given the sto-
ry of the French ball at Spokane, it
may be certain that there Is frantic
hurrying home of absent wives, and a
strenuous hustle of er1ing husbands to
be absent when the loved spouses ar
rive. Naturally enough every hus-
band In Spokane, who cannot estab-
lish an alibi, will be regarded In the
household as stepped in guilt, and will
have penance to do for months to
come. The story of the ball Is print
,, ed in another column.