Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-03-08
Thomas Whitehorn and son

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Claude left for San Francisco last
Wednesday to join Mrs. Whitehorn,
who has teen spending the winter
with relatives in that city.
Mrs. Jessie S. Petit Flint has re-
Gently received her ordination GER
tiicate from the Spiritual Associa-
ton of Oregon. This gives her,
under the laws of Oregon, all the
privileges given to the clergy of
other denominations.
Here is what correspondent in
one of our exchanges has to say
about one of their citlzens:''Dr Scott
is our excellent dentist, our popular
city marshal and a very amiable
and worthy young man." The
writer is evidently trying to retain
the good opinion of that popular
Office holder.
The weather during the latter
part of last week would make ore
believe that Father Time had play
ed joke on us and slipped the
calendar up a few months. Upon
awaking in the morning, instead of
usual patter of the rain. you hear
the songs of the robins and larks
as they greet the new day. The
days are warm and pleasant. and
IN the evening you can listen to the
frogs as they announce the coming
of Spring. Give US Oregon, if it
has the reputation of raining thir-
teen months in the year.
Take look at the proposition in
ad. on first page headed valuable
premium" and call the attention of
your neighbor to it. If he is
chicken fancier, or thinking of
going into the chicken raising, this
will be just the proposition that
will suit him. We wish to place
the GAZETTE in every home in
Benton county, and to do this we
offer these inducements, a three
months trial subscription to the
Poultry Journal mentioned there,
absolutely free to every new
subscriber to the GAZETTE, or to
any old subscriber renewing, on the
conditions there proposed. Look
over the ad. and see what you
think of it.
A Crazy Social will be given by
the Presbyterian Ladies' Aid So.
ciety at the home of Mrs. John
H. Simpson on Wednesday evening,
March 9, 1905. A number of guests
are expected from Salem. A doctor
will be in attendance and all foun d
perfectly clothed and in their right
mind will be fined not more than
five cents nor less than one cent.
The following digestib!e articles
will be served, to those attending:
"The staff of life," "a la goat" "a
tireless worker among women,"
"a dead beat with sticks of wood"
"something to get rid of and can
agent for wedding. Admission,
Is cents for one or two for a quar-
ter. Everybody come.
While thawing dynamite prepara-
tory to blasting stumps at Burton's
hop yard, two miles north of In
Saturday morning at
8 O'Clock, over a 100 pounds of
dynamite exploded, killing Curtis
Baker and Gilbert McCabe, young
men of % and 18 years respectively,
of Independence. The bodies were
were torn to pieces, almost beyond
recognition, and members of the
bodies were hurled 12O feet. The
legs of both were torn off at the
knees. The shed at the place of
thawing was shattered to splinters
and hurled 22O yards. The earth
was torn up for several feet around
to the depth of four feet. In a
house SO yards away the windows
and doors were. shattered. A
woman and child in the house
were not hurt.
"We certainly have an easy time
getting eggs in Corvallis" said a
local landlord recently. every
other person in the town brings
them in for sale. Farmers, busi-
ness and professional men all seem
to keep a score or more of chickens.
And they keep the kind that lay
eggs, too. No little, puny ones that
belong to a bantam, but large, clean
white eggs that we are always glad
to get" We cannot doubt the
landlords statement, for we have
noticed the same thing time after
time. Coming to town in the morn
ing you notice numerous town people
taking eggs to the stores and hotels.
While on our way to the city one
morning recently, we passed gen
tleman with a large bucketful of
epos. He was TALKING to a ladv