The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-06-28
Ray Cady returned Monday
from weeks visit at the Fair.

| Ray Cady returned Monday
from a week visit at the Fair.
Miss Mayme Crawford is home
from Portland for short vacation.
"A. J. Johnson is on a trip of
bank examining in Southern Ore
gon.
Mrs. Charles Young of Elk
City is visiting relatives in Corval-
lis.
R. L. Whitehead and wife are
to leave tomorrow for the East for
al extended visit. n
Wallace Baldwin, an cd time
Benton county man, has arrived
from his.home at Los Angeles and
is the guest of friends.
Mrs. Minnie Arnold arrived
Sunday from Berkeley, California,
for weeks visit with Corvallis
friends.
Mrs. B. A. Cathey and
daughters, Marie and Evelyn, re-
turned last evening from a two
days visit to the Fair.
Mrs. Ed Phillips arrived Fri
day from Grants Pass to spend the
summer with Corvallis relatives.
Mr.. Phillips is at Jacksonville.
Miss Kate McCune Of Eastern
Oregon has been for several days
the guest of Mrs. B. w. Wilson
The young lady may spend the
summer in Benton county.
| Mrs. Mary Avery has returned
from Portland where she has, re-
sided for sometime, and has again
taken up her residence in Corval-
lis.
Roy Harlan, A. N. Harlan,
and a graduate # the business de-
partment of o. A. c., leaves today
for Boise, Idaho, where he has ac-
!: cepted the position of the Y. M. G.
! A.
The regular monthly meeting
of the Ladies Coffee Club occurred
Monday afternoon. 1t was decided
| to discontinue the meetings of the
Club during the summer months.
) Ice cream, cake and coffee were
served to about thirty ladies'.
Merit Pratt of Blodgett was in
Corvallis yesterday. He sold his
IS acre ranch 212 miles from
B1odgett Mondav, to a Mr.. Bennet
who arrived in Corvallis from Des
+ Moines, Iowa, Sunday, with his
!, family. The price paid was $4,000
and the deal was made in less thar
half an hour after Mr.. Bennett ar.
) rived at Blodgett.
81 They named their brat ssIn-
{ tEyest-I-gator' and laid it or
vour doorstep. Invest" under
the circumstances. as a part of the
name is peculiarly appropriate.
: About the only interest the public
, has in the thing however, is thai
: people are triae curious to know
q what the Investment" is, ane
who is making it.
e 1t is noticeable that the mair
! purpose of the Investigator" is te
= convince Corvallisites that William
i cite river water is just the thing
]. for them. It may as we'll be ad
E mitted first as last that in part the
t claim is correct. Willamette river
: water has some advantage, in tina,
r it is not only good irrigant, but {
: good fertilizer. AS least, it is gooo
: in the latter respect, when the deac
E horses whose carcasses float around
. in it. do not die of the wrong dis.
ease.
"A phone message from a prom
, inent citizen of Dallas to the Times
: yesterday morning announced that
7 the actual reduction of insurance
: rates as a result of the new gravity
/. water system in that town runs
from 10 to 80 per cent. The av
erage reduction is about IS pei
cent. If the town had fire limits,
he says, the underwriters wou1c
t have made the reduction average
rs per cent, AS it is at present,
e the saving to the people is fifty pc.
S cent more than the interest the
town pays on the bonds she float
t ed to pay for half the cost of build
( ing the system. He said also,
that the use of water had turned
| out to be far greater than had ever
been figured on before the works
, was built.
While enroute to a social a.
, Monroe Friday evening, with two
l. !,