The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-10-21
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&C. H. Miller and family moved
Wednesday into their new house on
Third street.
Mrs. Robert Mosby of Cottage
Grove attended the Barclay Btu
chanan nuptials, Wednesday.
Miss Stella Payne of Rowland,
has been the guest this week of
Benton friends.
Arthur Hawley and family of
Bellefountain were Corvallis visit !
ors Thursday.
There will be preaching by the
pastor tomorrow morning and eve
ming at the M. E. church, south.
Mrs. N. H. Pierce arrived last
week from Nebraska for an extend
ed visit with her parents Mr.. and
Mrs. A. N. Harlan.
Eggs are soaring these days.
Wednesday none was to be had in
the market and today they are
scarce at 80 cents.
Amber & Waters sold this
week the Mittlestadt los acres 1-2
miles south of Philomath to Mr..
Melville Of Salem, Oregon, price
$4,000.
"A Buffalo man put a rat
trap in his pants pocket. His wife
got caught, while attempting to
take money and had him arrested,
but the urt stood in with the hus-
band.
Rev. H. D. Chambers, Gener-
al Missioner of the state of Oregon,
will preach at both morning and
evening services at the Episcopal
church Sunday.
The Corvallis Poultry show
which occurs November 80,
December I and 2. The president
of the association is DR.. Bowen
Lester and the secretary Gene
Simpson.
-Scio's debating society has
opened the season with the subject
Resolved, That woman is superior
to man" The affirmative are all
women and the negative men.
What is to be the sex of the judges?
The Prince and Princess of
Wales started Thursday on a tour
of India, for which British people
will have to pay $1,000, 900. A
retinue of two hundred people &C.
companies them.
Jacob Henkle and Mrs. Eliza
beth Conger Henkle, widow of the
late Ichabod Henk1e were married
at the latters's home near Philo-
math Thursday. The brides age
is given in the court house records
as II and the groom's as 80. Both
are highly respected residents o1
the county.
Robert Johnson has again beer
doing stunt as deputy clerk
that is, since Grover Hedrick got
married. Robert was liberal in hi.
offers of free marriage licenses
having had very narrow eScape
from Kaupisch. It is told that
Bob's late return temporarily tc
private life was because he got
wind OF the drift of things and got
out of the Office to avoid taking
chances on Hedrick.
"A resident of Dakota SAYS the
following are among the big things
that occur in that state: A farmer
left his plow in the ground in &
field, when a wind storm came uE
and drove the plow fourteen miles,
making furfow the entire dis
tance, which he saw One day e
neighbor' S little girl who had gone
out to play in the morning coulc
not be found. A hunt was institut
ed and she was found inside a pei
pod. The pea had grown around
her during the day, where she hae
sat down to play in the morning ir
pea field.
&C. A. Hyland, the we'll know1
Corvallis painter who pounded {
hole through the wall of the city
Jail and escaped Saturday night, i:
again in trouble. Hyland wa
locked up on account of drunken
ness and after leaving the jail he
secured rig and drove to Albany
On Monday. however, he returned
to this city, and after hiding abou
town for several days, he was re.
arrested Wednesday night and
placed in the county Jail. Or
Thursday he had a hearing anG
was fined $50 and sentenced to 2.
days imprisonment in the county
bastile.
There was a pleasant wedding
at the home of the brides parents
Mr.. and Mrs. William Crees, at
o'clock Wednesday evening, the in