The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-01-21
LOCAL LORE.
NEWS OF CORVALLIS AND
VICINITY TOLD IN BRIEF.
The Comings and Goings of People
Social Gossip, Personal Men
ton and Other Items of
Public In. terest

SOCIAL GOSSIP, personal Men
ton and Other Items of
Public Interest
Mrs. Walter Wiles returned
Thursday from visit wi tn rela-
tives at Plainview.
Miss NJ. Eva Starr arrived
Wednesday from a ten days visit
with her sister.
Two daughters of Charles
Witham residing near Monroe, are
seriously i'll, one with tonsilitis,
the other with typhoid.
An appropriation of $500
is asked of the legislature for main
tanning the state university the next
two years.
Presbyterian church, Rev. M.
S. Bush: Subject II. a. m.. "The
Lamb Of God;'' evening, 7'3o,
subject, Divine Necessity"
w. w. Holgateis having his
shop on south Main street repaired
and remode1ed, with view to oc-
cupying the premises.
j. D. Howell is to put out 500
peach trees on his place on Kiger
island. Ned Smith is also putting
out six acres of the same kind of
trees.
W. c. Hawley and Charles P.
Bishop and wife, prominent Salem
people, passed through this city
Wednesday, enroute to Newport
for a rest.
Eugene Register: Yesterday
afternoon the college track men
met and elected George w. Hug,
OF, as captain Of the track team for
the season OF 1905.
The Electic Business Univer-
sity is new venture in Albany.
c. c. Hogue is vice president, and
takes the chair of expert account
ant.
Miss Helen Rie1h'ock arrived
Thursday evening from Wis
consin, Tor E. visit with her sister,
Mrs. Hubert Hodes. Miss Kie1-
block is making tour of the
Coast.
"A new directory for the Inde-
pendent telephone. has appeared.
1t shows city list of 324 subscrib-
ers, and large number of country
phones, aggregating in all between
$50 and 500 The new list is
available for subscribers now.
While feeding sausage meat
into steam grinder at the Lilly
shop, Wednesday, Tommy Flett
had the misfortune to lose the ends
of the two middle fingers on the
left hand.
The members of the w. H.
M. S. of the M. E. church were
very pleasantly entertained by Mrs
Swami Wednesday afternoon. Vo-
cal and instrumental music, in
teresting papers and dainty refresh
ments were features.
The Central Willamette Poul-
try Association opened its annual
show at Albany Wednesday. En-
tries have b9en made by the fol
lowing Corvallisites: James Horn
ing, Mrs. J. A. Buchanan, S. E.
Elliott, J. NJ. Porter, F. L. Miller
S. E. Beall and DR.. Lester.
A game of basket ball was to
have been played in the Armory
last night after the Times pres.
hour. The players were the OAC
girls and a girls team from Leb'
anon. The latter are described a:
a strong aggregation, and a lively
game was expected. The play
was to begin at nine o'clock, ate
piano recital by Prot. Taillandie
in college chapel.
Salem Statesman: Peace off
GERS of Marion county and the cit,
of Salem have made a raid on heus
es of i'll repute and arrested 6v
men for vagranGy. The officer
announce that they will drive ou
Of the city every man who live
upon the earnings of fallen womer
This is not the outcome of an
moral wave, but simply the de
termination of the officers to fore
the laws. The men were sentent
ed to work on the streets IS day
each.
After more than four years {
faithful and efficient service. D
Cathey has resigned his position {
leader of the choir In the M. ]