Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-04-01
LOCAL LORE.
Recent Happenings in Corvallis
and Vicinity.

dH0 SlSfNlSys
w. F. Chapman, of this city
spent last Tuesday in Albany.
Born, on Saturday last, to the
wife of @. ". johnson, of Kings
Valley, a daughter.
Mrs. M. E. DeBoest, of Portland
arrived on Wednesday for weeks
visit with Mrs. J. Mason.
Miss Effie Michael, of this city
returned home on Monday from a
pleasant visit with friends in Albany
Sam Hartsock, Royal Shaw and
Alton Coates returned on the train
from Albany, and will resume their
studies at the O. A. G.
D. B. Farley and Dallas Har-
pole, of Monroe, came in on We'd
nesday to attend the Republican
Convention yesterday.
An Easter entertainment will be
given by the Baptist Sunday
School or Sunday morning. All
other services the same as usual.
A cordial invitation to all.
Prof. Ruthyn Turney received
Tuesday through Gerhard store, a
fine imported Mittenwald double
bass. It is violin shaped back with
ebony trimmings and is a very fine
instrument.
Next week, from Thursday noon
to Saturday noon, April 7 to 9, by
special request DR.. Lowe, the oculo-
optician, will he at the Occidental
Hotel. He will not be in Corvallis
again for six months. Remember
two days only.
Newport reports the hardest gale
last SATURDAY. that has visited that
section within the memory of the
oldest inhabitant. The gale was
almost hurricane in force aud fury.
No damage is reported beyond
broken windows, blown-down fences
and demolished chimneys: 1t is
surprising how some of the old
buildings survived the gale. Over
on South beach the old hotel build
ing was moved off its foundation.
Reports from the country say there
is a great amount of fallen timber
and the roads are badly blocked.
You are safe if you purchase DIR.
Lowe's superior glasse-eye safe
and price safe. Consult him from
Thursday noon to Saturday noon,
April 7 to 9. ~
About $50 members were present
Monday afternoon at the regular
meeting of the Ladies' Coffee Club.
An interesting literary and musical
programme, followed by an exhibi-
ton drill of the physical culture
class, under the direction of Miss
Helen Crawford, was rendered. Be-
fore adjournment an elegant lap
lunch was served by the com mittee
on refreshments. The club has ar
ranged for another of their popular
dancing parties Friday evening in
the City Hall.
Marion Keen, the Pacific Coast
representative of the stock-import-
ing firm of J. Crouch & Son, .of
Lafayette, Indiana, has just sold to
j. X. Fawcett, of 'Bellfountaiu, a
three year-old Percheron stallion,
recently imported by that firm from
France. The price paid was $4,000,
and Mr.. Fawcett will take him to
his farm near Monroe. This is the
eighth horse that Mr.. Keen has
sold in this valley during the last
two years, the others being mostly
of the Gutenberg breed of German
coach horses. All the others have
given good satisfaction to theil
purchasers.
DR.. Darrin, now on his way around
the world for about the eighth tipe
sends us from far Bombay copy O.
''The Times of India, the leading
English paper of that section, anC
copy of the Bombay Samachar"
printed in type that looks like s
mixture of Sanscrit and Arabic, up
side down. The japanese news il
the latter paper must be very in
teresting at least it looks as if 6
thousand men had been fighting
hard, and this was their picture be
fore the smoke cleared away. DR.
Darrin proposes to climb the great
pyramid again before he returns
and buy himself a dog in Constanti
nople, if they have any left. W.
wish him pleasant Journey fol
himself and his good wife, and {
speedy return to Oregon.
The knell of suspender buttons
has at last been sounded says tn,
Dry Goods Economist. After Ions
suffering man is to be emancipatec
from tbo;r thro1S The MoSe.