Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-08-02

j. Il. Smith and family lett sun
day tor a weeks pleasure trip in
Portland.
Flora Perkins, Augusta and Julia
Schrader, Of Tillamook, are visit
ing friends in this city.
Mrs. HammeI and daughter,
Blanch and Mrs. Sarah Jacobs
went to the Bay Saturday and re-
turned Sunday evening. .
Miss Maybelle Abbey, a member
ef the. class of '03,of the O. A. c.,
left yesterday for the East for an
extended visit.
S. L. Kline and wife are now on
their way nome via San Francisco
and expect to arrive in Corvallis in
about a week or ten days. Mr..
Kline, in a recent letter, reports
having had a royal time at Oyster
Bay while acting as member of
the committee to notify Mr.. Roose-
veit of his nomination.
A surgical operation was per-
formed last Wednesday night upon
Mrs. Nina Ryecraft who lives over
in Alsea valley. Mrs. Ryecraft
once lived here and is we'll known:
Drs. Cathey and Pernot performed
the operation which consisted in
opening the right breast and the
removal of a mass of puss from the
pleural cavity.
Marion Lytle, who lives in Philo-
math and who has had smallpox,
is slowly recovering although a
very sick young man. He caught
the disease from sleeping in the
same bed occupied by Hawkins
who recently had it. Mr.. Lytle's
case is the most severe of those that
have occurred recently in Benton
county.
The wonderful strides of the
rural free delivery system in the
past four or five years is the most
marked feature of national growth.
In 1889 only 200 routes were in
operation. At the close Of the
present year there will be over
$4,000 routes running, bringing a
daily mail service to more than
12,5OO,000 people residing in rural
districts
The specimen jars for the Benton
county exhibit at the Lewis aid
Clark Fair have arrived and are
now on exhibition at S. L. Kline's.
The jars are made Of the best glass,
different sizes aud oval. The proper
position when filled will be inverted
so as to show the contents to the
best advantage. H. L. French has
charge of the exhibit and will col.
lect and seal all exhibits put in the
jars. He will have sole charge of
all the jars with the exception of
the jelly glasses which anyone may
secure.
The grand midsummer excursion
on the G. & E. to the Bay Sunday
was we'll patronized. There were
eight coaches and about 300 pas
sengers, 80 of whom were from Cor
Wallis. Many took advantage of
the trip over the bar in the steamer
Roscoe" 'The Life Saving Crew"
gave an exhibition on the beach in
the afternoon. The weather was
all that could be reasonably hoped
for. Among those who went from
Corvallis were Rob't Huston and
wife, J. K. johnson and wife, B. F.
Irvine and daughter, T. H. Col
bert, E. E. Wilson, R. G.. Craven
and Thos. Nolan.
Last week E. w. Streng ship
ped a carload of moulding to
Salem. This speaks we'll for
the product turned out by the
Corvallis Mill company, besides
having the best and most COM
pleted supply of all kinds of lum-
Der put up in a shape that COM
mands the attention of high
class buyers. With the same
consignment went also two car
loads of unfinished lumber.
Mr.. Kelly, of the Booth-Kelly
company of Eugene was down to
see Mr.. Strong last week about
purchasing $500 more logs. The
purchase was made which gives
Strong two and Que half million
feet in addition to what he al
ready had or nearly six million
feet now in the river and on the
bauk. Mr.. Strong has a large
force of men at work up the Nc
Kenzie getting the logs into the
river ready for the drive which