Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-11-21
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

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next Friday night.
Charles Heckart was awarded the
contract to put in the basement for
the new Y. NJ. C. A. building and
began work with a crew of men
Saturday.
Ira Smallman, son of John Small
man. came over from Stayton a few
DAYS ago to visit with his parents.
He expected to return to Stayton
yesterday.
The supper given in the Farm
ers' hotel Friday evening by the
ladies of the W. G.. T. U. was a
most successful affair in every way
and was we'll patronized. They
realized a neat SUM for their
trouble. is
Owing to the early frosts having
killed the chrysanthemums the
ladies of the Presbyterian church
have decided to declare their show
off. However, they are arranging
to hold a Christmas Fair during
the first week of December.
On another page will be found
the matter Of welcome and data
put in form for the inside pockets
of the Portland business men on
their recent visit to our city. Read
it owe and see if the committee
from the Citizens League overlook
ed anything.
To date we have not heard of the
BARRIERS of Albany accepting the
challenge for a game Of football that
was recently issued them BY the
Corvallis BARRIERS, even though the
use of a razor on the gridiron was
prohibited. The Albany Democrat
insinuates that the Albany BARRIERS
are holding back out of respect for
the families of their Corvallis
brothers.
W. A.. Wells will leave within a
day or SO for Redlands, Southern
Californis. Here he will remain
until about the first of the year
when he will 60 to Las Vegas, New
Mexico, on account of his health.
At this point is established one OF
the greatest sanitariums in.the
world. It is endowed with millions
of dollars and has in connection
with the institution thousands Of
acres of land. It IS not putting it
:. too strongly to state that it is
: hacked by the wealth of the United
States.
Prof. Ell. Lea arrived 10 Cor
Wallis, Friday, and remained until
Saturday, when he departed fol-
Portland enroute to New York City
For several years he has been en-
ploYed as a chemist for a sugar
company in the Hawaiian Islands
and has worked up until he row
commands salary of $4,000 per
year. Prof. Lea graduated from
OAC a number of years ago and
while here formed ties that bind
him to the old town pretty closely
and, while he vas on a strictly bust.
ness trip to New York, he said he
could not pass us by without a nod
He is to be back in San Francisco
about December Is.
A new form Of p%ostofice money
order has been adopted by the
p~ostoffice department, a descrip.
ton of which follows: On the lei
hand of the new order is a column
j. of figures commencing at 81 aao
running in fves to 500. TIL
clerk at the issuing Office will tea:
= this out SO that it will show th'
number next higher than the on
for which the order is issued. Thi
change in itself is an important one
as it will prevent the raising of tn
amount Of the order above th'
amount indicated in the columns Q
figures. With the old orders tn
figures could be erased and other
substituted. Even if an order Q
this sort could not be cashed, i
might be passed on an unsuspect
ing merchant. Another radica
change in the order is that the ad
dress of the person to whom th
order is made out is to be placed Of
the order as well as his name. O.
the old orders the name Of the re
mitter did not appear, out thi
will be included on the orders.
Friday, while hunting on hi
farther's form some II miles sout
of this city, Mark Richard shot
hybrid--a cross beween a Chin
- pheasant and a grouse. H
brought it to Corvallis, Saturday
and turned it over to Roy Woo
cock to mount. The bird favor
both sides of the house. It is larg
and well developed in every wa,
Mr.. Rickard says that in flying
differs from a China pheasant i
the fact hat it spreads It's tail. I