Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-03-29
LOCAL LORE.
Recent Happenings in Corvallis
and Vicinity.


A. Blackburn has purchased the
Perry drug store in Lebanon and
{ viii move there this week:
Mrs. Simpson and Miss Pearl
Simpson are expected to arrive home
this week from Washington.
St. Mary's Chapter, Order Of
Eastern Star. will meet this Tues
day evening at Masonic Hall.
Special meeting of Corvallis Lodge
A. F. & A. M. Wednesday evening
March 80. Work IN the M. M.
degree.
There will be services at the
Episcopal Church Wednesday even
ing at 7:30 o'clock p. m. A cordial
welcome to all.
F. IT. Stow, of the Independent
telephone system, is in the city on
business connected with the pro
iected rural lines, ..,=
Mr. Frye, the Grants Bass bank
er, arrived yesterday for a short
visit with his son, William Frye,
who is a student at the O. A. C.
Good Friday comes this week on
the first of April. We hope the
eelebrants of the holiday and the
holy day will not get mixed up.
Ladies will have to rush their
preparations for Spring millinery,
as Easter comes next Sunday. We
can only hope that the weather will
be favorable and the Easter display
will be satisfactory.
The new game of $500" the So
'ciety fad, bids fair to supersede
Finch and Pit. 1t is game of
skill, and ranks at the head of all
the games now played.
Homer Davenport, now called
Americas greatest cartoonist, will
give one of his characteristic lec-
lures, illustrated, at the Opera
House, Albany, on April Sth.
All music lovers will be interest
ed in the concert to be given next
Friday evening in the College
Chapel bv the O. A. G. Glee Club.
An attractive programme of glees,
quartetts and solos has been pre-
pared
Miss Anna Thompson went to
Portland Saturday. She expects to
return today, bringing with her her
sister, Mrs. Mary Elmer, who was
recently injured by street car in
that city. Mrs. Elmer has sufficient
iy recovered to walk with the aid of
crutches.
Ellsworth Post No. 10, G. A. R.
has secured the Hon. Frank Davey
to make the Memorial Day address
in this city on Monday May 30.
Mr.. Davey is one of the representa-
tives to the State Legislature for
Marion county.
During the big windstorm on Sat-
urday, March 10th, two wind mills
were blown down in the vicinity of
Oak Grove. The stock shed on the
Elmer Hamilton place in Linn
county about three miles from this
city, was lifted off the foundation
and blown down, killing two head
of cattle.
Miss Olive Thompson has accept
ed clerkship in the Boise Book
and Music Company's new store,
which opened in that city last week.
1t is the finest store in Boise, and
was opened with a swell reception.
Miss Thompson still retains her
position as pianist with the Chris
tiansen orchestra.
The regular meeting day of the
Woman's Relief Corps. has been
changed from Saturday 10 the Sec
ond and fourth Friday afternoons,
at 2 o'clock p. m. The meetings
are held in the l. O. O. F. hall, on
Second street, and sojourners in the
city, in good standing are invited to
attend.
Woodmen of World entertained
Mary's Peak Circle and friends We'd
nesday evening. This evenings en-
tertainment consisted of recitations,
songs etc. The recitation of Dora
Lindgren, song by Adelaide and
Bernetta Sheasgreeu deserving spec
ial mention. T. T. Vincent deliver
ed an excellent address on "Frater-
nity", and D. D. Berman's side de-
gree was enjoyed by everyone.
On Friday evening, April 1st, of
this week in College Chapel will be
given the first annual concert of the
o. A. G. Glee Club. As was previ-
ously announced in our paper the
club is a new organization in the
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