The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-02-08
LOCAL LORE.
Adver tisements in this column charged for
1t the rate of cents per lne


Mrs. Clark Rice has gone East
for visit with her parents.
DIR. and Mrs. James Harper
visited Albany friends Saturday.
Ira D. Bodine returns today
from business trip to Coos Bay.
Rev. ). H. Feese is to return
today from a brief trip to Portland.
Surveyor General Daily was in
the city Saturday, attending to
business at OAC.
Mrs. S. N. Wilkins is to give
an cat home" tomorrow afternoon.
About 20 ladies will be guests.
The Occidental hotel has now
put Oh a bus, to accommodate its
increasing trade.
Miss Leila McBee of Monroe,
was guest over Sunday of her
sister, Miss Leora, in Corvallis.
&C. G. Chapman returned Sun
dayfrom Portland where he found
no location tosplease him. He ex-
poets to go to Si1verton this week
to look about.
-Mahara's 'Minstrels drew
large audience at the Opera House
Saturday evening. The entertain
ment was clean with good musical
numbers.
Miss Leah Barclay, we'll
known in Corvallis, is seriously i'll
at the home of her motheT near
Bruce. Mrs. Barclay who recent
1y went to Everett, Wash. for a
visit, was summoned home Satur-
day to be at the bedside.
The chicken pie supper given
by the M. E. ladies Saturday night
in Miller's Hall was a success in
every respect. The sum realized
was $71.2o which will be devoted
to improvements about the parson-
age
Manfred Sets came afoot from
his Alsea store last week, but he
returned Saturday perched upon
brand-new wagon drawn By splen-
did team of horses which he pur-
chased from M. Rexford of Jobs
addition. The outfit is to be used
in freighting between Corvallis and
Alsea.
IN. F. Gillespie, after a long
residence in Corvallis, takes his de-
parture for McMinnville about the
Goth, where he has accepted a po-
sition with Jacobs & Co., extensive
dealers in general merchandise.
The family will probably not join
Mr.. Gillespie for some weeks.
There is a general expression Of the
wish that the family may find their
new surroundings as agreeable and
profitable as they hope for.
"A party was given 1.-THE home
of Mrs. c. A. Spaulding last Tues
day afternoon that being the 18th
anniversary of Myrtle Spaulding's S
birth. The table was strewn with
articfia1 roses and all the school
mates did ample justice under the
mistletoe. Games and graphic
phone added greatly to the anuse-
ment and the happy children left
many presents for the little hostess
as tokens of regard.
TO satisfy growing demand
for them, some splendid maps of
Benton county have just been got
ten out by Clerk Moses and E. E.
Wilson. They are 16x2o, and give
all the towns, the roadways and
principal streams Of Benton county.
The price is $I.25 each, and or
ders are already pouring. into the
clerks Office. The demand is not
only local, but many inquiries come
from Fasteners who evidently
have their eyes on Benton, as a
future homeland.
J. N. McFadden returned Sat
urday with $50 head of sheep which
he purchased and drove out from
the Five Rivers section. Julian
states that he finds that sheep as
well as other animals and things
adapt themselves to the necessities
of their environments. This was
especially gratifying to him from
the fact that he was compelled to
drive his sheep over several lengthy
foot-logs spanning the streams on
his route,
AT recent meeting in Port
land, of the Oregon Association of
Stationary Engineers, the members
presented Geo. F. Bauerlin, the