Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-04-22
LOCAL LORE.
Recent Happenings i'm Corvallis
and Vicinity.

Recent Happenings i'm Corvallis
and Vicinity.
Visit the art booth, May 26.
Be sure and talk with Sacajawea,
May 25.
Ice cream and cake at the Carni
val
The grand march of Flowers
at the Carnival.
Frank Griggs of this city, went
to Albany on Friday on business.
Mrs. VIM. Crees, who has been
in Portland for several weeks, re-
turned Monday.
Rev. Father M. P. Smith, of
San Francisco. registered at the
Corvallis Wednesday.
An entertainment consisting of
music. tableaux ETC., will be given
next week for the benefit of the poor.
Details later.
Miss Kate Daniel left Tuesday
for Grants Pass, whers she will
spend a couple of mouths with friends
and relatives
The public school boys have a
track team training these fine days.
Thev expect to meet the town boys
also the Philomath College in the
near future.
The Hotel Corvallis has placed
on it's counter one of the most
unique advertising cabinets. Each
advertisement is nd-painted upon
a delicate slab of china.
Usual services at the Church of
Christ next Sunday. Morning sub
ject; "Opportunity and Opposition; !"
evening, "Where Art Thou?" Bap-
tismal service in the evening.
J. A. White, brother of A. G..
White of this city, who has been
spending the winter in California,
arrived in Corvallis on the 18th and
left for his home near Fargo, North
Dakota on the ooh.
Mrs. w. H. Holt, who has been
attending the Medical College in
Salem, has returned to Corval is
for the summer, and she and her
husband have taken up their resi-
dence near the electric light plant.
J. H. Montgomery and family, of
South Dakota registered at the Occi-
dental Tuesday. Mr.. Montgomery
is one of nearly hundred men
whose farms were sold to the Gov
eminent for military purposes.
Nearly all have come to Oregon to
locate. Quite a number find their
way to Corvallis and points on the
C. & E. R. R. We assure them all
a hearty welcome.
Mrs. G. C. Chipman was agree
ably surprised last Monday night
when about 100 friends, headed by
the w. R G. of this city remember
ed her on her 10th birthday. The
company met on the Court House
lawn about dark and then proceed
ed to Mrs. Chipman's home. There
were fun-making, congratulations
and presents ended by refreshments.
The Jolly crowd dispersed about
l1:3O p. IN.
A special meeting of Corvallis
Lodge, A. F. & A. M. has been
called by the master to meet in Ma
sonic Hall on Monday evening next,
April 25, at 7.3O p. M. to meet the
M. w. Grand Master of the state of
Oregon. S. M. Yoran, of Eugene,
who will pay the lodge an official
visit. The occasion will be mem
orable one in the history of the
lodge. All Master Masons are re,
quested to attend.
At the United Evangelical Con-
ference held at Hillsboro last week,
Rev. J. NJ. Ballentyne was elected
Presiding Elder of Dallas district,
and H. L. Pratt, Presiding Elder of
Portland district. H. A. Deck was
returned to Corvallis for another
year. c.. c. Polling was re elected
president of Dallas College. Bishop
Hartxler presided over the confer
ence. This is the first visit of this
bishop to the Coast. He expects to
be in Corvallis May and s.
With the coming of spring and
the melting of the snow, which this
year is very heavy in the mountains
mining interests are looking up.
Quite number of Corvallis citizens
are interested more or less in mines
in different part of western Oregon
. especially In the Bohemia district
east of Eugene. Several are max
ing preparations to go to Fall Creek,