The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-07-22
LOCAL LORE.
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NEWS OF CORVALLIS AND
VICINITY TOLD IN BRIEF.
The Comings and Goings of People
Social Gossip, Personal Men
ton and Other Items of
Public Interest.

NOCidl IOSSlp, EeISOudl Meu-
ton and Other Items of
Public Interest.
Miss Ruth Lilly left this week
for visit at the Fair.
Prof. J. B. Horner was a pas
senger for Newport Thursday.
Bush Davis was a passenger to
Newport Thursday.
F. A. Pierce of the Benton
county saw mill, transacted bust
ness in Corvallis Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Lafferty
are enjoying a vacation at Elk
City. They left Thursday.
F. P. Clark, the Philomath
merchant was in Corvallis Thurs
day, looking after business affairs.
R. w. Hinton of Bellefountain
transacted business in Corvallis
Thursday.
Presbyterian church. M. S.
Bush, pastor Morning subject,
.>'Justifcation.'' Evening topic,
Drifting"
Ed Starr of Bellefountain was
IN Corvallis Wednesday, seeking to
rent a house for occupancy this
fall.
II. D. Campbell lett Wednes-
day for Portland. He is to operate
Il threshing machine at Hillsboro
until September 1st.
Mrs. G.. II. Feese and children
returned Tuesday from a three
weeks visit with friends at and
near Cottage Grove.
Mrs. Newt Thompson, after
visit of several weeks with Cor
wallis, relatives, left Wednesday for
her home in Seattle.
Recent real estate transfers are
]. w. Foster and wife to S. w.
Bowser, 20 acres East of Bruce,
SITS; A. w. and D. G. Rose to S.
L.Kline, south 1-2 lot bl q, Cor
wallis, $40.
D. G. Rose has let to Adams
Bros. the contract for a $3.50 cot
fage of handsome design, to be
t e1ectsd on his ranch two
miles west of Corvallis. Work
begins at once.
Hunters licenses have been is
sued This week as follows: w. L.
Higgins, David H. Lewis. 7. H.
Hughson, Bush Davis, and R. w.
Huston. The total number OF Ii
censes SO far issued by Clerk Moses
is 75.
David Campbell, a Hillsboro
man was stung to death by bees
Wednesday. He was an expert in
taking honey from the hive, and
was SO employed at the time, when
attacked and stung in the forehead,
temples and face. He fell in a
StuDor and did not recover con-
sclousness.
Congregational church. Morn
ing sermon, 1.-The Power of Gentle
NESS" Communion service: Strang-
srs invited. Evening sermon,
What is an All Round Christian
Life? Opinions of Great Men"
Service at Plymouth at 3 O'Clock.
The ministers of Corvallis have
standing invitation from Samuel
Bane to make free use of his vege-
iable garden near town. He has
an abundance of almost every va
riety of vegetable, and pastors can
have them in quantities to suit
without money and without price.
Spraying for lice is, in process
at the Lilly hop yard. The work 1
done by J. S. Powell and son. who
are experts in the industry. They
have Just finished a double spray
ing Of the Beach yard across the
Willamette, and the accounts are,
ahat where there was an abundance
of lice, there are now none. +"
They had lively blaze in the
Linderman-Brook neighborhood
the other day. In some manner
unknown, fire started in the gras:
in the Linderman pasture. Il
burned furiously under the flaming
process of vigorous wind, anc
threatened for a time to do much
damage. It was finally gotten un
der control, however, before it had
done more damage than the burn
ing of few rods of fence and the
destruction Of quantity of gool
grass.
There was a pleasant picnic OF
the Groves ranch, just west o
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