The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-09-14
President Catch arrived from
Seattle Mo,;day.

President Catch arrived from
Seattle Mo,sday.
MIR. and Mrs. Callahan were
members of party of Corvallisites
that returned Sunday eveoing from
Elk City.
Miss Helen Crawford, who
spent the sumner vacation with re-
latives in Linn County, has arrived
for the opening of college.
Among the old students who
have returned for the opening of
college is George Herbert Root, ore
of the crack players on the fogtball
team. n4
Examinations at the college
for the opening term begin
Friday, and Monday is matricula-
ton day. The prospects are favor
able for very large attendance.
Prof. Taillantier and wife az
rived Friday, and are temporarily
st Hotel Corvallis They are look
ing for house to rent. Professor
Taillantier is the successor to
Mordaunt Goodnough as head of
the musical department at the COL
lege.
Hood & A1fo-d expect to COM
plete picking in their hop yard,
otherwise known as the Zimmer-
man yard, by next Tuesday. The
crop is somewhat lighter than in
former years. but the deficiency is
more than made up in gu .lity and
price. Sixty.fve pickers are en-
ployed. and the drying is done by
Vausberg and Rust.
Mr.. Watkins. who recently
purchased the in. McFadden farm =,
accompanied by his wife, left Mon
day for his home in Iowa. After
settling up his business affairs there.
Mr.. Watkins will return with his
family to Benton, to reside. 1t
will be remembered that Mr.. Wat
kins paid $12,375 for the McFad-
den farm, or $27.5o per acre.
Among the new dwelling hous-
es in course of erection in town is
one that Thomas Callahan is build
ing on lots in the rear of the resi-
dence of Mrs. Martha Burnett II
is to be seven room, two story
building. with all modern conven-
fences. 1t is to cost 81 ,6oo, and is te
be occupied by John Allen and
family.
A popular method among Ben.
ton farmers in growing vetch fo1
seed is to sow half and half with
oats. After threshing, by the use
of cleaners, the seed is separated
with but little difficulty and put on
the market separately. A we'll
known farmer who followed this
method this season realized o5 cents
per bushel for field of the mixed
grain, and got 55 bushels per acra
The vetch went at two and a hall
cents per pound, and the oats at 4c
cents per bushel.
"A public sale of personal pro
perty in the estate of the late Jane:
Dunn is to take place Saturday
September 24th, on the Sam Dav
place, II miles south of town
-Four work horses, four mares, foul
spring calves, tour cows, four hogs
forty head OF lambs, a farm wagon
and farming implements are among
the items to be sold. The SALE
takes place at ten O'Clock.
Elsie Garfield, former OAC
student and well known IN Cor
wallis was married last "Wednesday
at McMinnvil1e, and is to go ii
China, TO ; live. The wedding i!
thus described by the Observer
Rev.A. I. Ferch and Miss Elsie
May Garfield were married las
evening at the United Evangelical
parsonage. The rooms were taste
fully decorated in green and white
with an abundance of potted plants
The bride and groom took thei
places under a fl fal arch. and til,
marriage service was soon spoker
by the officiating minister, Rev.AA A
Winter. Mrs. Ferch is the daugli
ter of F.J.Canfeld, a prosperou
farme. of Yamhill county. She i
a graduate of the Oregon Agricul
tural College, and during the las
year was one of the esteemed nro
fessors of Dallas College Il wa
with reluc!ente that the Executiv
Committee of the institution aecep,
ed her resignation: The bes
wishes of the Board of Trustee:
fellow teachers, and students az
company her upon her new voyag
of life and larger feld of usefulnes
Mr.. Fereh is a devoted young mil
lster of the United Evangelic;
CbU-cci, opd uoS receufIv aDDoin