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

Last Friday Minor Swick aud
wife and Mrs. John Stewart arriv-
ed home from Belknap Springs.
Hon. c. B. Crosno, collector of
customs of the Port of Y .quina,
was in Corvallis on business Satur-
day.
Among recent visitors at the
Fair were Misses Ora AMI Nellie
Wood and their cousin, Miss Ida
Locke.
Mrs. E. A. Chenoweth, of Kings
VALLEY, is visiting with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. J. D. Wells. She is to re-
main several weeks.
There is to be lawn social given
on the court house lawn tomorrow
evening. 1t is to be under the
auspices of the w. G. I. U.
| L. A. Houck and family arrived
last week from Gold Hill, Southern
Oregon. for a visit of couple of
months with relatives and friends
of this section.
J. B. Mason was out from Wren,
Thursday, on matters OF business.
Mr.. Mason says everything is
fourishing in that section. Crop
prospects are immense.
Walter LYONS, editor of the
Westslde Enterprise of Independ-
ence, passed through Corvallis, Sat
urday, on his way to the coast,
where he is to spend several days.
Rev. D. E. Hol from Woodland,
Calf, will hold evening services at
I7.45 o'clock for one week in the
Episcopal church, commencing the
eighth inst. Everyone cordially
invited.
Chief of Police Lane will hence
forth have his headquarters at the
office of Police Judge J. F. Yates.
Parties having occasion to phone a
message to the Chief should re-
member this.
The threshing machine is doing
business again throughout the
county. 1t is stated that in many
fields the yield has been a d'sap-
pointment. Plenty of straw, but
not an overbundance of grain.
Mrs. Otto f. L. Herse and sister,
Miss Agnes Nevis, went to Port
land, Sunday. Yesterday Mr..
Herse joined them and together
they are to visit the Fair and en-
joy trip up the Columbia by boat.
Corvallis played a game of base
ball in Toledo, Sunday, against a
com bination team composed of the
best material of Lincoln county
and strengthened by three good
men from U of O. The score was
Z to 8 against our boys.
For the first time in many years
Norm Lilly will not run a thresh-
ing machine through grain harvest.
When Lesley Lilly. son of the
Iabove, was here recently he was al
lowed to take the threshing outfit
back to Douglas county on his re-
turn.
W. II. Hansell, who is running
a wood saw in this city, is authority
for the statement that in his opin-
lion the town is several hundre d
cords short of what it was at this
. time last year. IF Mr.. Han
(seil is correct in his figures, and be
lis in position to be, why is this? {?
l Mr.. and Mrs. w. D. Chiles ar
rived in Corvallis, Friday, fiom
Davisville, California, for briet
visit with relatives. They will also
attend the Exposition in Portland
Mrs. Chiles is a daughter of the
J late Richard Galloway and hel
J girlhood was passed in Bentor
3 county.
:, J. L. Hainden, wife and daugh
ter, arrived from Missouri las
, week and are to be guests of Mr.
: and Mrs. Crees for the next month
They visited the Fair a few days
before coming to this city. Mr.
r Hainden is nephew OF Mr.. Crees
! and the latter met his relatives il
f Portland.
While there is considerable as.
surance that hops will command ,
! good price this year, there seem
to be an idea that the valley cro]
will be trife short. However, i
F is claimed that the hops produced
. will be Of excellent quality. Let u
9 hope that the crop will exceed il
= quantity what is estimated.
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