The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-09-03
NEWS OF CORVALLIS AND
VICINITY TOLD IN BRIEF.
The Comings and Goings of People
Social Gossip. Personal Men
ton and Other Items of
Public In. terest
Bora Thursday to Mc. aid Mrs.
G W. Denmap, a sou.


-B,rr Tnaafay m Mr and Mrs.
Go. Sto neback, boy.
Born Sunday. to NJ. and Mrs.
B. l.. Turner, a bov.
Mrs. J. Mason went 10 Portland
Thur .day, where she will be busi-
ness vlsitor for several days.
Mrs. D. O. Houck has arriv.
from a visit at Newport aud is the
guest of Corvallis friends. u
Services at the Ca .holic church
Sunday at 1890 a. no. ani 7-3O p. No..
Father Springer cff1cia ting. All are
welcome. p "a
Subject at the Church Il Christ
Sunday morning. GOODS Temples"
evening, "An Iu'allible Gai ie." Even
ing service oegias at 7-30.
AT ne .ting OF the A., Ministerial
Association last Tuesday, itwasagreed
to begin the evening services 3at the.
various churches at 7-30 aftee Sepr.
let.
Services will begin at the Pres
byterian church Sunday. 10 the
morning, Rev. Cal rick will speak on
the subject, rs there any Benefit 10
AffiictioD?" I, the evening Mrs. Car
rick will give au address. Ssryice
will be held at Oak Ridge at 8 p. %.
Presiding Elder NJ. J. Bsllantyne
will rr ach at the United Evangelical
church Saturday evening, FL, Sunday
morning ard evening. The business
of the second quarter will be trans
acted after the service on Saturday
evening. Hours for. service, ii a. N.
and i-oU y. Ill. ..s- ,...-..
w Fl. Dilley, the Corvallis car
penter, was 10 Thursday from Summit
where he Is building a new store
for Tlte Ranney. the well known mer-
chaut. The building Is to be forty
feet square, two stories, with hall
overhead. ---f
DR.. ard Mrs. FaIra. expect to
leave NJ ,nday f,r ths Eat, to ba ab-
sent three months. The visit will eX-
tend as far north as New York City.
and will include journeys to various
states. DR.. Farra is to spend a por-
tion of his absence in post graduate
work In his profession.
] Jesse Spencer, the we'll known
barber, Is temporarily with the Plaster
barber shop, pending the preparation
of loom f,r his occupancy 10 the
Small building. The repairs to the
latter will require week for compile
tion, after which Mr. Spencer will oc-
cupy the Do1th room, the adjoining
room on the south TO be occupied by
Mrs. Small's icecream parlors.
The Fire Department meets next
Monday night. Ii is important that
there be a good attendance. Among
tother matters to come up Is the au-
nual election of officers. Still fresh in
mind, Is the fact that but recently the
department was in a condition of ln-
ocuous desuetude, due to non-at.end-
ance. A repetition can be prevente d
II all firemen, active and honorary,
remember the date ard occasion.
They collected samples OF grow
ing grain out at the college farm the
other day for edding to the State Fair
exhibit. With much labor and pa
tience the stalks we're pulled during
the day and laid aside for the morrow
That night tie entiIe herd of college
COWS got out and ate up the samples
to the last stalk.
2 MIR. and Mrs. S. N. Wilkins ex-
pect to leave Monday, or soon there
after for three months visit in the
East. They are to &C to S.. Louis
for sight of the Fair, to Chicago, New
York. and thence for sojourn at Mr.
Wilkins old home In Alabama and
Mississippi. They expect to return
home about December 1st. Their
trip will be made In company with
DR.. and Mrs. Farra.
Guy E. Moore and Mrs. ". P.
Lafferty left yesterday for the East
Mr.. Moore goes to Chicago to enter
Columbia College of Oratory and
Dramatic Art, and Mrs. Lafferty goes
to her old home In Miss ouri for a Wis.
absent during the school year, and
Mrs. Lafferty will return home ir
about two months. The departure q
MIR. Moore was the occasion of a pleas
ant evening given In his honor by
friends at his mothers home Wed
nesday evening.
Many townsmea are watching fol
gravel-hauling to begin on Jefferson
street. That thoroughfare was newly
graded last spring, and so far NJ
gravel has been put on 1t, except a
crosswalks. 1t Is understood tha
the street committee has contracted
for the work to be done, but the fac
that there Is delay In beginning
makes It feared that an unusully earl,
ireshet, such as came three or fou
years ago in September, might pre-
vent completion Of the job, and occas
ion great damage to the new grad
that would be certain to result dur