Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-04-12
LOCAL LORE.
Recent Happenings in Corvallis
and Vicinity.

". II. Schuette and wife, of Port
land, passed through the city, on
their way to Monroe,
Mrs. M. E. Vanderost, of Salem,
publisher Of the Oregon Searchlight,
was in the city the last of the week.
Manager Merrill, of Albany tele-
phone service, was in this city on
Thursday on business connected
with the telephone exchange.
P.O. England and Earl England,
from Kent, England, were at the
Occidental on Sunday. They are
looking for location in this coun-
ty.
On Friday afternoon, April 9Th,
Dr.James Withycombe, of the o. A.
c., went to the reform school where
he lectured to the boys of that
school.
Mrs. Wisecarver, of McMinnville,
visited with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. r. M. Gilbert in this city
several days last week. She return
ed home yesterday.
d. w. Jones, of Kings Valley,
having made the necessary arrange
ments will begin four months term
at the South school in Alsea, where
he taught last year.
On Saturday the thermometer
registered over 80 in the shade,
and at places on the east side of
Main street. where they were ex-
posed to the direct rays of the after
noon sun, it climbed up to liz.
A merry party, consisting of
Jack Hodges and wife, R. B. Mon
tague and wife, 2. H. Rudel and
wife, came up from Albany on a
Steam Launch, and returned in the
afternoon.
T.F. Horne, an old locomotive
engineer, who has seen service all
over the western country, came to
Corvallis on Sunday. He halls
from Houston, Texas.
AS far as known the o. A. c..
team to compete at Portland will
consist of Moores, Coates, Jackson,
Curr:n, Williamson. Rumbaugh,
Smithson, Grenskaw, Root, Swami,
Horton and Cooper.
The Toledo Reporter is authority
for the following statement: That
the C.t& E. management are remov-
ing the car shops from Yaquina to
Albany, and in the near future
trains will change the run, arriving
at the Bay in the middle of the day
instead of the evening.
Mrs. Elsie Irion died of con-
sumption at Elberton, Washington,
the latter part of last week and the
funeral was held on Saturday
The deceased graduated from the
sO.,A. G. in 1895 and afterwards re-
1nained in Benton county for a
number of years and taught school
in the vicinity of Corvallis, She
has been in Washington for the
past six years.
The Corvallis Brass Band is now
"a perfected organization. At the
meeting on Friday evening, w. T.
Nichols, was elected:president, R. c
Irvine, secretary and W. L. Sharp.
treasurer. New music has been
ordered and everything points to a
first-class town band. The boys are
.practicing twice week and will be
in good condition when the cam
paign opens.
Seventh Day Adventists held ar
executive meeting on Wednesday
afternoon, in Portland, to plan 70,
the annual campmeeting which will
probably be held in Corvallis. The
leaders say that an unusually in.
teresting session is anticipated this
year, because of the presence oi
noted workers from other states
The Adventist work, evangelical
medical, missionary and educationa
will be fully discussed at the con-
ferences, which will be attended BY
over 1000 people.
We have received an elegant
souvenir of Humboldt county, Cal
the great Redwood timber country
Issued from the Office of the Hum
bofdt Times. 1t is book of abou,
220 pages, flexible cover, elegantl,
printed, with hundreds of half tones
illustrating the various Industries o
the country, and gotten up in {
style that will certainly attract at
tsntiou to this little-known region
Mr., Charles B. Mines, is the man
ager of the Times, at Eureka, ant
to his enterprise and skill we ar.
indebted for the work.