The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-09-07


len yesterday after visit at the
A. J. johnson home.
MIR. and Mrs.. F. P. Sheasgreen
were the guess Sunday of Monroe
friends.
Miss Leah Barclay started
| Tuesday for stockton. Calf ,rnia,
| where she will visit her sister Mrs..
w. I. Hewitt.
= Prof Moreland. head of the
department of horticulture in the
! Wa slliugton Agricultural College.
located at Pullman, has been a Cor
wallis visitor for several days. He
is studying horticultural conditions
j in Oregon, and investigating for his
own purposes the horticultural
work at OAC He is a graduate
of the University of Arkansas.
which is also the Alma Mater of
Prot. Shelton,
New contributions for the Ben
| ton county exhibit are as follows:
Mrs. E w. Strong. plums; Mrs.
Sam King, plums;; Mrs. Elvin
Witham, plums; F. M. Spencer,
honey; W. H. Malone, honey; AL
| sea Dairy Co, cheese; J. w Buster,
wheat. oats. alfalfa; Mrs. w. H.
Sets, clover; A. NJ Gray, wheat;
Mrs. Gellatly, three varieties of
onions, and plums; S l.. Rycraft,
wheat and cheat; NJ. Porter, peach.
es and silver prunes; Mrs. Jesse
Porter, jelly; Miss Doliie Brown,
jelly.
The buildings and fifty foot
frontage of J. D. Mann & Company
north across the street from Hotel
Corvallis was purchased Friday
| by Sam H. Moore. The deal in
cluded the stock of second hand
goods. Monday. Mr.. Moore sold
the stock of goods to Hollenberg
& Cady. and leased them the build.
ings for one year. The price paid
in the, original sale is understood
to have been about $4,000. The
trade was negotiated by Amber 8
Waters.
George Houck, who with his
1 family, is spending a few days or
1.-The Monroe farm, was in towr
4 Monday. He has sold his resid.
ence property in Eugene, but has
leased it for a year. Mr.. Honck
says if the proposed electric road
! is built between Corvallis and Eu
gene that he proposes to withdraw
his farm from the market and oc
cupy it with his family. Mr..
Houck believes that the road, il
built. will double the value of all
the farms along, its route.
1t is the small boy that is thor
oughly on to things He is a compre
hebder, an urderstander, ana the
terms he applies to persons and
things never miss the mark. One
of them stood on the street the
other day. An auto passed. Autos
are not always manageable. Some
times they work to suit their driver
and sometimes they don't. As
this one passed. the urchin said,
" There goes ---- on his auto
bubble
N arrangs ments have beer
made by the Presbyterian congre-
CATION to fill the vacancy in the
pulpit Of their church; caused by
the resignation of Rev. Carrick
The resignation was not expected
by the congregation in general, and
up TO the present no steps in the
way of securing a successor have
been taken. The members are an
xious to secure a strong preacher,
! and the field will be thoroughly
surveyed before call will be made
The membership is large, and the
position Of pastor of the churc1 de-
sirable.
John Scott rode Jesse Wiley s
brown mare on Front street Sunday
morning. Berry's auto was. tax.
ing turn along the thoroughfare
at the same time. The mare eyed
the thing suspiciously from afar
and when she got up about as Gloss
to it as she thought she ought te
be, she few the track. That wa:
near the lumber pile at the Wood
cock buildings, and before she fin
ished piroueting. the rider disap
peared from her back. John swung
to the reins, however, until in one
of her jumps the unmanageablt
mare was directly over his pros
trate form, and then he let go. He
was not injured.
Building operations have fin.
} ally been commenced on the new
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