The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-03-18
LOCAL LORE.
NEWS OF CORVALLIS AND
VICINITY TOLD IN BRIEF.
The Comings and Goings of People

The Comings and Goings of People
Social Gossip. Personal Men
ton and Other Items of
Public Interest.
Mrs, Ed. Andrews is GONZALES
ent, after two weeks illness.
IS. E. Trask was out Wednes-
day from Yaquina..
Mrs D. O. Houck arrived
Wednesday from visit with her
son at Eugene.
Hs-Mrs. John Hayes spent We'd
nesday with Albany relatives.
Rev. P. A. Moses will preach
at the NJ. E. church South Sunday
at II o'clock.
Frances, the little daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. Wiles is SUIT
fering with an attack of measles.
Mrs. L. L. Porter is expected
to arrive today for a ten days visit
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ].
A. Spangler.
Judge Harris is conducting
court at Eugene, and it is suppos-
ed that he will preside at the COM
ing term of circuit court for Benton,
to convene a week from Monday.
The College Barometer for
March has appeared. 1t is full OF
interesting matter. news, literary,
editorial and otherwise. The mag
azine is better conducted than ever
before, a statement that in no sense
discredits former efforts.
-Congregational church. Sun
day school at 10, class for young
men at 10, Worship and sermon at
II. Christian Endeavor at 6:3o,
vesper service and sermon at 1890
Evening sermon "The Modern
Lawyer.
An Irish post-boy, having
driven gentleman long journey
during torrents of rain, was asked
if he was not very wet. -"Arrah
I would not care about being very
wet, if I was not so very dry, your
honor
Herman Flacksman. a poor
ragpicker. of Hanover, inherited
$Io, 900 from an American uncle.
When the money was paid over to
him on Feb. II he dropped dead.
An app1e-eating contest took
place at Avignon, France, on Feb.
I3. Jules Leclerc ate forty-one ap
pies in seventy minutes, Alex Dem
crest ate forty-seven in seventy six
minutes, AMI Alphon,e Boguet
managed to swallow 6fty-three in
eighty minutes. At latest accounts
all three were seriously i'll.
"A workman on the Siberian
Railway was accidentally locked in
to refrigerator car and was after.
ward found dead. Imagining that
he was being slowly frozen to death
he recorded his sufferings with q
piece of chalk on the floor. The
refrigerating apparatus, however,
was out of order, and the tempera.
ture in the car had not fallen be-
low fifty degrees Fahrenheit
throughout the journey. Imagina-
ton killed him.
Presbyterian Church, Rev. M
S. Bush. Worship II a. m. Subject
What Every Man Needs. Even.
ing service 7:3o subject, "Mormon'
hsm-A Despotism Within A Re.
public" This subject will be i'll.
ustrated by 50 beautiful stereopti.
con views. There viii be scenes O
Mormons and Mormon life, theil
temples and tabernacles, and oppos
ed to these will be views of the
Presbyterian Home Mission
Churches and schools planted t.
destroy Mormonisrn. There will al
so be many views of scenery in th'
Mormon country such as, Sunse
on Salt Lake, Curricanti Needle
Royal Gorge. Yellowstone Park
San Juan River, American Forl
Canon and Cliff Dwellings.
"A very cordial response wa
made to the one hundred invita-
tions issued for the reception TO
the young people of the Congrega
tional church. Rev. and Mrs
Green were assisted in receiving b,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Wilkins, Mr.
and Mrs. R. H. Kennedy, Mrs
Ebert Hollister, Miss Madelin
Nichols and Messrs w. J. Kent
Edgar D. Jackson and Donald Hill
A short programme, consisting o
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