Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-10-07

sired for sale at the Corvallis cider
mill, south end of Main street. Ap-
pies ground for one-half.
Paul Cnilders, of Grand Ronde.
a student in OAC last year re-
turned Wednesday and will resume
his studies in college.
J. w. Howell, the genial land
lord of the Farmers Hotel, left
Tuesday for Harrisburg for a short
visit with an uncle.
R. O. Robinson, an estimable
young man from Holley, Oregon.
arrived Wednesday and will enter
OAC.
Emily Lindsay Squier. the child
elocutionist and impersonator, will
fill an engagement in the College
Chapel Friday evening under the
auspices of the Y. w. G. A.
E. Shepard of the class '01 of
OAC has returned to Harvard Uni
versity where he will this year
complete course in electrical en-
gineering.
The Buckingham store at Bell
fountain has been purchased by
Otis Taylor. Invoicing is going on
at present and possession will be
given as soon as completed. Mr..
Buckingham will reside on the
farm.
| Sheriff Burnett informs Us that
taxes are now nearly paid in.
Some on timber claims are yet un-
paid, as some holders Of such claims
believed they should pay no taxes
until a patent had been issued for
their land. Attorney general Craw'
ford has given an opinion that
taxes on such could be levied after
the first of last March, regardless
of whether a patent has been issued
or not. With these cleaned up,
: the delinquent list will not be
greater than it was last year.
Each member of the '97 football
team which played in last Satur-
days game appears to have found
his niche. Holgate is stenogra
t pher, and John Gault "a plumber In
f Portland. Sceggins is practicins
law in Eastern Oregon; Mcbride
: and Edwards are in the butcher
r and cattle business at Mayville and
Condor; Bodine and Thurston are
] farmers in Linn county, Walters il
/ with his father in the sawmill ant
. lumber business in Lane county
r and Elgin keeps books for the Ben
ton Mills.
;! The annual conference Of the M
), e. church, just held at Eugene, re
J. districted the state, forming thre
districts, East Portland, West Port
land and Eugene. The William
g cite river separates the first tw
If named to point south of Corvallis
le Eugene district embraces all of th
10 territory south of this point. Coz
ts Wallis, with Portland, is in the WEI
Is Portland district, of which Rev. v
Q B. Hollingshead is made presidin
it elder. Rev. G.. H. Feese is sol
from Cottage Grove to Corvalli
= while Rev. F. L. Moore, who b
~ been pastor here for the past to'
q years goes to Cottage Grove.
Lieutenant Quinlan of the 9tt
IL u. S. cavalry is an unassumir
~ agreeable gentleman and has q
OF ready made a favorable impressit
as on the students. He is a Ia
10 graduate of the University
Michigan, and entered the milita1
tn service as a volunteer in the rank
al He earned his promotion by to-
'es years hard service under Geners
a. Lawton, Funston, Grant. YOU
.ss and Macarthur, in the Philippine
being severely wounded q numb
of times, from the effects OF whl
y, he still suffers. There can be
~ doubt of his fitness for the positi
:k: y, to which he has been assigned.
ith "
en-. T. H. Wellsher has a patch
to strawberries that is bearing
or. second crop. Tho plants are OF
of eyerbearing variety and the berr
es- are just ripening for use. 1
ng. second crop will not be as large
to the first nor the berries quite as
but being of variety famous !
its size, the berries are as large
common varieties. The vines hs
\ received large amount of wa
\ during the summer. Besides
Strawberries, Mr.. Wellsher
Ia ro;aoI kuo croy,a of oniOns b0e