The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-04-20

Wade Malone, the AIsea mer-
chant, was q passenger on the West
eide for Portland Monday.
After Sunday Welt at home, Vic
tor Spencer left Monday for Portland,
where he is employed In a drug store.
Herman Tartar. d putty state food
and dairy commissioner, after brief
visit at home, left for Portland, Mon
day.
The street grader began opera
tions on Jefferson street yesterday
Preliminary ploughing has been In
progress for several days.
Hereafter the general delivery at
the postoffice will be open on Sundays
from IL 30 to p. N, instead OF l to
l 80 as in the past.
M. Jacobs has been seriously Ill
at the family home 10 this city for the
past 10 days. He is past eighty now.
He was slightly better yesterday morn
ing.
Albany Democrat: The Corvallis
Gsz tie announces that 1t will not be
responsible for any OF the utterances
OF the republican campaign column In
it. That is a strange condition of at
fairs.
The district convention of the De-
gree of Honor Is to be eld in Albany
day and tom orrow. Among several
d dslegates who will attend from Cos
Wallis are Mrs. Sarah Moore, Mrs. Tay-
lor Porter and Mrs. She asgreen.
John Benson arrived Monday
and is vi-iiiog old friends in Benton
for a few days. He recently sold his
farm near Oregon City, and has not
since located and up to the present
has m ade no purchase OF another
Ehame.
When the "Times" went to press
yesterday afternoon, Miss Parkinson
of Foo Chow. China, was advertised to
speak last night In the Methods,
church. The hour for beginning the
lecture was 8 o'clock. Miss Parker.
son recently arrived from Foo Chow
"A Yaquina Bay paper says: 1t is
feared that terrible tragedy has been
enacted over on the Siletz. A home
steader over there has written the
following letter to Toledo butcher
"Pleass do not cend me eny more
meete yet alreatty have butchered
myself"
The old DubruiIle house at the
corner of Monroe and Ninth has beer
torn down, and Mrs. 81. c. Miller, own.
er tf the lots, has let the contract fol
the erection OF new two>story dwell.
log house on the site. The contrac.
tors are Adams Brothers. Work Is te
begin In the near future.
d. G. Rose returned last weel
from attendance on a meeting of the
Oregon Fire Relief Association, O.
which he Is trustee. The meeting
was held at McMnnville and one OF
the acts of the board was the purchase
at $1,000 of brick building to be
used as home for the company. Ar
a iditional $4,000 is to be expended il
fitting up the bulldog.
Mrs. Claud Catch, Worthy Grand
Matron of the ord 7r, pail an official
visit to ST. M4ry's Chapter of the East
era Star Saturday night. There was
a large attendance of the membership
an.initiation Of candidates, an exem
pllfication of the secret work, and a
banquet. Mrs. Catch left Monday fol
a similar visit TO Westside chapters o
the order. Claud Catch accompanied
Mrs. Catch to Corvallis, but returned
to Salem by Mondays boat.
There has been a dearth of East.
ern mail In this town since lest S atur
day. A consignment arrived Saturday
morning but there was failure Sunday
and again yesterday morning. Mai
was expected yesterday, but with
much misgiving. As a result, the 10.
cal postoffice has been barar of mail
matter than at any time during the
administration OF Postmaster John.
son. The occasion for the delay is
the washouts in the railroads on Pow.
der river and Burat river in Eastern
Oregon. Il was the purpose at one
time to transfer mail matter from the
0. r. & N, and send it to Portland via
Butte over the Northern. but washouts
on the latter line frustrated the plan