The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-01-13

4 A5--J due6 dCTXdu I6turu6Q MODOdy
/ from weeks visits to upper valley
towns.
up to Monday afternoon, only 81
voters had registered at the Benton
county clerks office.
Mrs. Ellsworth Irwin returned
Monday from visit with relatives at
North Yamhlll.
Mrs. j. Mason returned home
Monday from Philomath after ten
days visit with her mother, who is in
very poor health.
II. T. French. director OF the Ida
fo Experiment station. left yesterday
after visit with Corvallis friende.
He is in attendance at the National
Livestock Association at Portland.
While in Eastern Oregon. Mr.,
Turner met Milton Morgan at
| Wasco. He Is son of F. P. Morgan
aud was formerly employed in the Ga.
zetIe office, he is now employed on a
/. Wasco newspaper.
r. R.~tTurner and Ira Tufner
are two of party returning Monday
from Gillian county, whittier they
went for the purpose Of locating home
steads on lands which have hitherto
been "smuggled" by stock men. The
party went by private conveyance
through several Eastern Oregon coun-
ties, havlng'shipped their team, wagon
and camping outfit to The Dalles.
An effor, Is 10 progress to ir.stuse
! new life into Corvallis GTapse, and
members of that Organic alton are ury-
ed to attend meeting 10 take place
at giicultural Hall next Saturday al
ternoon. At the meeting thece Will be
an election Of Office rs and .ce dispatch
of other business of Importance. The
fact that the state gre.nge is to meet
10 Corvallis next Nay, and that the
National Grange Is to meet In Port
land the following November gives
rise to general sentiment among the
/ members for a rehabilitation cf Cor
wallis Grange, and 1t IL probable that
the effor in that direction will prove
Successful. It ought to.
The entanelements through which
Amos Bloodgood, the central charac-
ter 10 the roaring farce, care You a
.Mason?' passes, In his endeaver to
prove that he is "Worshipful Grand
Master" of q lodge when, In reality, be
|. not, and his lu1id descriptions o1
, lodge room tactics and Masonic initia-
/. tions are wonderful examples of imag'
: inarion and Ingenuity. BY the great
: est tact and diplomacy, he convinces
> his wife for a time; but is finally trap
( ped into attending lodge social,
3 where bis deception is Disclosed. Tc
: propitiate his wife's wrath. be eventu'
} ally does join, aud the complicated
! ends of this clever piece are deftlJ
proven into a pretty love story at the
fall If the curtain. "Are You a Ma
sou?" will be presented here tonight
} Among thezpew Rtudents at ,tht
! collee e Is A. B. Coa'e-, the we'll know
:. Albany athlete, who has ent. red fol
8 a four years cour 10 electrical en-
: git eering. He will undoubtedly be {
{ member of the coming track team
2 and will add a great DIAL to the ef
8 fectivensss Of the aggregation. I,
? the broad jump and hurdles, 1t Ii
: doubtful If hs has a Superior on the
r Coat. and with the training tha
j Physical Director Time will be abl'
Q to give him. it Is doubtful il he vii
D have an equal 10 either event. HI
has rec; ri of 16 seconds Fl at in the
100 hurdle Ma ie at Vict r'a last yeal
He holds the Coast record the OK
hurd e, a. 25 3-5 seconds, mac OF
, ! the OAC ira TX last spring. He ha!
, an official re,cri OF 81 feet and II g.
! ioches in the br al jump, made a.
Victoria last year, but has unofacia
: record. that add Is inches Or more tt
, this distance.
Adam Radir is one of the sub
: scribers for the "History of Oregon,
with whom the distributing agents haG
misunderstanding as to the price @
the copy he was to have. The agen
l ! made several calls upon Mr.. Radil
without coming to an agreement upoI
their business relations, and the lattf
, endeavored to devise some means By
, which the agent might be estoppec
from further onelaughts upon his time
, and upon his pocket book. A circum
, stance enabled him to gain at least
temporary satisfaction A member o
Mr.. Radir's family was i'll one day
when the agent called. He sympa
thized With the family and ventured
! to inquire the nature Of the ailment.
Mr. Raidir said that the attending
physician had pronounced it smallpox
The agent Immediately had business
elsewhere for the time, but later the
ruse was discovered and the book
man returned to the attack with re-
newed vigor and finally on compro-
mise collected S12 on claim Of $ls
-Workmen have discontinued fur
ther operations on Mr.. and Mrs. Fred