Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-04-08
LOCAL LORE.
Recent Happenings in Corvallis
and Vicinity.

Born, Wednesday night, to Mr..
and Mrs Don Woodward, near
Philon,ath, a son.
]. A. Archibald, of Philomath,
passed through the city on Monday
on his way to Albany, where he
went on business.
w. o. Trlne, physical director of
the o. A. c., went to Salem on
Monday to look after some valuable
horses he has at the State Fair
grounds.
Colonel Hofer. of the Salem Jour
nal, has been lecturing on oratory
at Engene. He pleased an appreci-
.ative audience who applauded him
to thesecho.
Benton County Sporting Associat-
ION will hold its monthly meet at
Philomath, April IL. Sporting men
from all over the country will be
there.
A special train will leave Cor
wallis tonight for Philomath at 6:45
to take the crowd who wish to at
tend the oratorical contest. Round
trip 81 cents.
S HI. Horton left yesterday for
Gold Hill, where he will visit with
relatives for a few weeks. Mrs.
Horton left for the same place some
time ago.
The subject at the Congregational
church Sunday morning will be,
barriers Burned Away; After
Easter Thoughts" Sunday evening
1.-THE Game of Chance and are you
playing it?
There was a basket ball game
Saturday evening at the Armory,
between the Corvallis High School
team and the town team. The
game resulted victory for the town
boys by score of 4 to 1.
Ensign Crabtree of the Salvation
Army, Of Oregon, departed yester-
day for Toledo, where he will re-
main until Monday. He expects to
stop at intermediate points on his
return.
Mrs. w. H. Currin and little
daughter, left Tuesday, for McMinn-
vile, where she will join her hus-
band, who has charge of the hard
ware store of R. M. Wade & Co, at
that place. They expect to reside
in that city.
George B. Ready, who was un-
fortunate enough to get one of his
fingers mashed in the machinery in
the College printing Office recently,
is having quite serious time of it.
His son Walter, came up from Port
land, Monday and will assist with
the work in the Office.
G. G. Chapman, the well known
restaurant keeper, will reopen the
old Commercial Restaurant, in the
same old location. on the west side
of second street, north Of Madison,
"on Saturday of this week, at noon.
"A cordial invitation has been ex-
tended % the public.
J. X. Berry, the well known BIZ
cycle dealer and general expert, has
purchased from M. D. Berry his
old interest in the firm of Berry &
Carl. The business will be contipu,
ed under the same name. Large
additions will be made in the stock
sand sportmen will be able to find
:all manner of supplies in their line
at the same old stand on Main street
Peter Ballou's team of greys took
a notion to run away on Wednes
day morning. They were down or
the o. R. & N. dock, and started a
a lively rate up the grade then uI
to Main street, where they turned
north. They kept up the pace til
they passed the Occidental, when .
commercial man climbed into tn
back part of the wagon, secured tn
Eeins, and stopped the team in from
of the Hotel Corvallis. Very littl
damage was done.
The friends who met Mr.. D. L
Vandenburg, of Iowa, when he wa
here on a visit recently, will b.
pleased to learn that he has sold hi
farm, and expects to come to Ore
gon. He has selected Corvallis al
au objective point, the inducemeu
being The First Spiritual Union o
Corvallis, as Mr.. Vandenburg anC
family are spiritualists, and it i:
natural that they desire to locate
where services are held. We under
stand that others contemplate com
ing here for the same reason.