The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-01-27
LOCAL LORE.
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Ben Woldt returned Monday
from Portland.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. q. Simpson
spent Sunday with Albany relatives.
DIR. and Mrs. Harper attended a
whilst party 10 Albany last Thursday.
Mrs. A. L. Kuisely IL to enter.
tain the Ladies' Whist Club this af-
ternon at h.r home on College Hill.
Mics Pauline Kline returned
Morday from two weeks visit in
Portland.
Mrs. J. NJ. Porter re.urre1 M,n-
day from Portland where she visited
her sister for a week.
-Mra. NJ P. Burnett left last week
for an extendet visit with her mother
az Baker City. e
Miss Eva Starr went to Por land
Monday for a two week's visit with
her sister.
Miles Maud McBee returned Mon
day from visit with Salem relatives
and fr'e- ds. .-
Only fur days more remain of
Kline's Clearance Sale. Mail orders
solicited and sfaction guaranteed,
There will be a Union me ,ting of
the Young peoples societie, Of Cor
wallis In the Methodist church on
Sunday evening at 6p. m. L. o.
Roberts, sec.
In the address on the paper OF
every subscriber TO the TIMES there a
adNe. This date shows the time to
which the subscription is paid Most
subscribers prefer that this date shall
not show an arrearage. Mention is
made here so subscribers may Dotice
the date oD their TIMES ard there
disc over how theystand on the books.
The steamer Leone is to begin at
once the carrying Of whesr from up
per river warehouses to the two
Corvallis mill. At Cummings, Peoria
Finley's ard Bonneville there are
large stocks of the ce cal that is to be
brought to Oorval Ills where 1t will be
manufacture Into -four, -
With the early appr Nach offspring
the Village Improvement society is to
resume activity. No meetings have
beea be during the fall and wintsr
months. but next Friday night the
first of the regular monthly meetings
to take place during the coming SEA
son will he he'd. The county court
rom Ia the Ilace, and 7-30 O'Clock
the hour.
Wheat is II cents in the local
Market, The Chicago advance has
not yet aehed Corvallis, In fact
everybody bark there is unloading
wheat on Arm our and his friends Ia
such prodigiaus quantities that the
corner has Re m slightly shaken and
prices have suffered slight declin e.
The late.t Chicago quotation wa!
some hing over 81 cents.
"A news item 10 the Oregonlan an.
nounces, that by the death in England
of, the mother of her ,rmer husband
Mrs. Henry Ford Of Portland has
fallen heir to an estate of $4,000
Mrs. Ford Was formerly Miss Cors
Fisher OF Corvallis, who later become
Mrs. r. r. Walker. After the deaet
of Mr.. Walker, she married Henry
Ford, who for time conducted fur
niture stofe In Corvallis in partner
ship with Guy Laws. two or three
years ago. The new Inheritance car
ries with 1t an income for Mrs. Ford o
$l,750 per year.
"A packet house greeted "Malop
ey's Wedding" at the Opera House
Saturday night. Some people who
attended find fault with the perform
ance none perhaps 30 much as the
local mar cement and the manager OF
the company. In the main, however
the bill seems to have given satisfac.
tiop. The complaint of the loca
management is that much larger
company was promised than acutual
ly appeared, fault that steps will be
taken to prevent In the future, II pos
sible.
"A new scheme for the state inter
collegiate oratorlcal contests ia plar
whereby general subject is given ou,
year 10 advance. Two hours bef ,re
the contest, the orators are each giver
by lot subdivision OF the subiec.
and required to deliver an extern
porapeous speech. The plan Is now
under discussion at the various col
leges, and is to be acted upon at the
coming meeting of the Association to
be held at Pacific University, Forest
Grove, in March,
up to yesterday 100 persons had
registered at the county clerks office
Registration blanks have been sup
piled to registration officers in the
outelde precincts. and such as desire
can register without coming to Cor.
wallis. The list of outside re 3istratiou
fSs E,s