Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-07-12
G. A Riggs and wife, of dallas,
are visiting friends here.

are visiting friends here.
T. C.sStockwell, of Dallas, was
transactjhg business here Saturday.
Mrs. Cordley goes to the Bay to-
morrow.
w. E. Yates spent last Sunday
in Elk City.
DR.. Farra is having cement
walk constructed in front of his
residence.
Ida Cochran and Fay Harring-
ton, of Forest Grove. are visiting
friends here.
President Catch went to New
port, Saturday, to be gone about a
week.
M. Bauer went away Sunday for
a snort vacation with rod and gun
in the mountains of Lincoln county.
City Editor Toeve, of the Albany
Herald, was passenger to New
port on Sunday looking up items for
his paper.
Miss Mamie Cauthorn goes to
Athena today to spend the summer
with her sister, Mrs. frankie McIn-
tyre.
R. C. Craven, wife and daughter,
went to Newport Sunday. Miss
Craven expressed herself well pleas
ed with the attractions of the sea-
shore.
C. W. Yates, of Oakyille, fell
from a load of hay on Saturday
last, and broke one Of the bones Of
his left shoulder. DR.. Ellis, of AL
bany set the broken bones, and the
patient is now in fair way to re-
covery.
Prof. Cordley goes to Oakland,
Oregon, Thursday to be gone about
a week. Mr.. Cordley is expert
menting with San Jose scale in the
prune orchard of Samuel Evans,
ia Coles valley, below Oakland.
Mrs. F. P. Morgan returned home
from an extended visit to Wasco,
Thursday accompanied by her
daughter-in.law, Mrs. M. P. Nor
gan, and baby, Marta, who will
spend the summer with her in Cor
Wallis and Newport.
J. H. Reader, agent of the JEFF
ferson street depot of the Yamhill
division of the Southern Pacific
railroad, at Portland, is at the Hotel
Corvallis, accompanied by his
daughters. They are on their way
to visit Mr.. Readers brother, Sam
uel Reader, who lives near Monroe. {.
NJ. C. Singh, B. A., of Japan,
arrived in Seattle last Saturday
and will be in Corvallis tomorrow
to attend the O. A. G. He is a
friend of G.. Mudkerji, who is
already here and through whose
representations Mr. Singh was in
duced to come here to seaure an
education. --.
There have been several valuable
street improvements during the last
week that we're very much needed
and add greatly to the appearance
of the city. A number of new cross
ings have been put in, several new
sidewalks have been built and
others repaired. A large quantity
of gravel has been put upon the
streets in different parts of the city
The ladies Of the Catholic church
will give lawn social at the home
of Mrs. j.. M. Nolan, Wednesday
evening, July l3. Ice cream and
cake 15 cents; coffee and cake 10
cents: lemonade cents, also home
made candies. A cordial invitation
is extended to: the public to join in
and have q good time Wednesday
syening. /. s.-
Hall Brothers, or SlletZ, sent
i76, 900 of their fine cedar shingles to
Newport Tuesday night. They
were placed on q scow and towed
down by I. B.. Junking and his
launch Toledo, accompanied by
Warren Hall. The shingles were
purchased by Marshall Miller, o1
Corvallis, whose order calls for 1OO,-
900, leaving $4,000 yet due him.
DIR. E. w. Allen, of the Govern.
ment experiment station at Wash.
ington, D. c., was in Corvallis last
Thursday and Friday on the annual
inspection tour of the experiment
station of the West. Each year the
Government inspects all accounts
and records kept by experiment
stations receiving federal support.
Mr.. Allen goes from here to Pull
man, Washington, and Pullm an
and Boseman in Idaho.
State Game Warden J. w. Baker
is authority for the statement that