Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-08-11
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

Miss Frances Dllley Is spending
q week with friends at Newport.
Miss Daisy Brown, of Albany, is
the guest of Miss Mayme Rowland.
Eggs keep better when laid in q
cool place. Show this to your hens.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Bethers re-
turned Tuesday from their camping
trip in Alsea.
William Bogue and wife went to
Portland, Tuesday, to visit few
days at the Fair.
Mrs. Ed Buxton, of this city, who
is seriously i'll in Portland hos
pital is reported no better.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Gray went
to the coast the first of the week to
remain for a week or such a matter.
Miss Lizzie Condra and two sons
arrived Tuesday from California to
spend the winter with the formers
brother, Prof. Holmes.
Mrs. Frances Purdy and daugh-
ter, Miss Esther, arrived home last
week, after months visit with the
formers daughter in Portland.
T. W. Dilley, the original
"Fixer," took the early train We'd
nesday morning for Portland !,
where he will spend a week seeing
the sights.
The weather of late has been
what one would call warm-do we
hear any objections? AS mstter
of fact, if inferno is any hotter we
prefer to remain here.
Miss Blanche Hammel is to give
birthday party this afternoon,
from three to five, at ber home,
Hotel Corvallis. Many Lit le
friends will enjoy her hospitality.
The examinatioa for teachers be
gan Wednesday morning at nine
o'clock. Supt. Denman is assisted
in the work by Professors N. Tartar,
of this city, and O. V. White, OF
Philomath.
In the majority of instances
where threshing has been done the
yield has been disappointing. In
many fields the straw would cause
one to expect a yield Of 30 or more
bushels per acre, but only from &c
to Is bushels were realized.
The members Of the Christian
church will give an ice cream social
at the court house park next Tues
day evening, August Is, from 4 to
10 o. m. We invite all friends to
come and eat ice cream and spend
a social evening with us.
Hiram F. Meader, nephew Of
Mrs. D. C. Rose, spent Sunday with
his aunt at Rosedale Farm. Mr..
Meader is a fruit grower and a rep
resentative of Jackson county at the
Lewis and Clark Exposition and
stopped over here while enroute to
his home at Medford, Oregon.
Mrs. A. J. Hall and Miss M. J.
Lee returned to their home in Polk
county yesterday after a few days
visit with Mr.. and Mrs. II L. Hall.
The ladies leave Monday for a visit
to the fair, and from Portland Miss
Lee goes to Albion, Wash, for an
extended visit with DIR. and Mrs.
J. Frank Hail.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto F. L. Herse
and Miss Agnes Nevis, sister OF
Mrs. Herse, returned home We'd
nesday evening from their trip to
Portland and up the Columbia.
They had an enjoyable outing.
Today Mr.. Herse starts for the
Yacha.s country by way Of New
port on hunting trip
There was life-sized runaway
on Main street early Thursday
morning. A team belonging tx
Sam King attached to load o
lumber, took a spin down MAR
street and at Hotel Corvallis took {
turn on Water street bringing VI
near tie electric light PLANTS
dull are the times, however, tina
not single board was jolted off tn
wagon, to furnish an item of inter
est for the tired reporter.
J. G. Lowe, of the Independent
Telephone Co., went to Portland
Wednesday. Yesterday, his mother
Mrs. M. D. Lowe, who has been tn
guest Of her son in this city 81,
weeks, joined him in Portland
After visit at the Fair Mrs. Low
will go east, to her homein El Rene
Okla, and her son will return t
his duties in this city. Mrs. Low
is quite an observant woman an
during her visit here made man,
friends. q
Two colored preachers dow