The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-03-04
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. John
Coos, Thursday, daughter.

Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. John
Coos, Thursday, daughter.
Mrs. Susan Starr returned We'd
nesday from an extended visit in
Portland.
Mrs. Clara Hickey has arrived
from Portland for a visit with rela-
tives.
-small's bakery Is rapidly near
ing completion, and it is hoped to
have it open to the public by a
week from today.
Miss Agnes Wilson resumed
her duties as bookkeeper at E. B.
Ho,ning's, Thursday, after strug-
gle of few days with la grippe.
-"The Witnesses" is the topic
for the morning sermon at the Con-
gregational church to morrow, and
the subject for the evening service
at 7:3O is, "Why Are Some Bust
mass Men Not Christians?"
Mr.. and Mrs. George Noble
and Mr.. and Mrs. William Frickle,
all of Prineville, are guests this
week of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Small. The visitors are en- route
to California.
Mr.. and Mrs. Keith Brown
moved to ALBANY this week, where
they are hereafter to reside, Mr..
Brown having employment with
the Pacific States Telephone Com
pany.
p. Fl. Walton departed Thurs-
day for bis homestead on Buck
Creek, in Lincoln county, to begin
the work of putting in his spring
crops.
Almond trees are in bloom at
Grants Pass, the warm weather
having brought them out several
weeks earlier than usual. Peach
trees are also ready to burst into
blossom.
There was a meeting in Alba
ny Thursday evening of the Cen
trail Willamette Medical Associa-
ton. DR.. Cathey, of Corvallis, who
is president of the association, drove
over to attend. A paper on "Lohar
Pneumonia" was presented by Dr..
Newth, of Philomath.
"A literary and musical enter
tainment, occurs in college chapel
next Friday night. The numbers
will be by students in the elocution-
ary and musical departments at the
college,. under direction of Miss
Helen Crawford and Mrs. Green.
Tue proceeds go to the Village i'm
provement!s Nociety. Admission,
25 csnss .sx
"A .Union county farmer has
posted the following notice on his
farm: Hunters, Take Notice:
Hunt all you d-n please and when
| you hear the horn blow come 70 the
house to dinner. If''you accident
ally kill COW, skin her and hang
the hide in the barn. If the quails
! are scarce kill chicken or two and
| if you can't get. any squirrels kill a
hog"
1t has been suggested, in view
of the prolonged sunshine now prev
alent, that the head weather. man
misconstrued the local option law
which went into effect January 1st.
Whea the people generally voted
/ for ''dry" town or "dry" COM
munity it was not intended that
the provisions of the law should ef-
| feet the rainfall, which in this val
ley is almost II inches short of the
average up to this time. Formal
notice should at once be given the
weather man that he will not be
criminally liable if he gives US a
few gentle showers along between
now and the middle of June.
IN. G. Christensen, of Seat lie,
Wash, has seen a large spruce tree
in Clallam county, which he AYERS
is the most enormous one in the
state of Washington. The tree is
80 feet in diameter and it is 100
feet to the first limb. Commission.
er johnson will be urged to have it
exhibited at the Lewis and CLARK
Exposition. 1t is planned 10 have
a log cut from the tree loo feet long
and placed on exhibition. 1t will
be utterly impossible for the rail-
roads to handle the log, aud it is
necessary that it be towed here via.
Puget Sound, the Pacific Ocean,
and the Columbia and Willamette
rivers. A log was sent to the Chi
cago exposition in 1898 by the state
of Washington. but In comparison