The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-08-19

Miss Leon Webber, who has
been working in a Sheridan drug
store, is at her home in Corvallis.
A. F. Harlan and family and
N. H. Hornady and family leave
today for visit at Newport.
The total number of hunters
licenses issued in Benton county to
date is 14o; total FIRE permits, IS.
Mrs. James Groshong of Kings
Valley, is the guest OF her daughter
Mrs. E. B. Horning.
George Belt and bride moved
this week into the Allen Wilson
house on Third street.
Misses Madge and Una Bald
win ere to leave tomorrow for a
visit at the Fair.
20. J. Blackledge and family
have been Fair visitors since Tues
day.
Mrs. M. P. Burnett is expected
home today from visit with her
mother at Baker City.
Misses Helen and Gladys Hor-
ming returned Tuesday from visit
with relatives at Hood River.
Among the Fair visitors this
week are Miss Howard, Miss
Phoebe Miller and John Miller.
A new list of federal jurors
has been drawn at Portland and W.
A. Jolly and Walter Taylor are
among the names.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Allen left
Thursday for PortlanEs Their alb
sence will extend over period of
ten days.
After brief visit with her
parents Mrs. L. L. Porter returned
Wednesday to her home at Oregon
City.
Mrs. Dick Graham and child
rem arrived home Tuesday from
their sojourn at Newport. Mr..
Graham will remain at Newport a
while longer.
| In some of the farms to the
westward of Corvallis the wheat
yield is after the old style One
field out in the Newton naighbor-
hood went 28 bushels to the acre,
and the general crop in that section
is up to the average.
Corporal A. c. Sepger son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. M. Senger, of this
city, arrived Thursday from Zam-
boanza, Philippine Islands, where
for two years he has been. mem
Der of the 18th Infantry band.
Corporal Senger brought home with
him trunk full of curios, all oi
which are we'll worth seeing.
Justice Bean of the Supreme
court of Oregon is likely to succeed
to the vacancy in the United States
district judgeship at Portland. He
has been recommended for the
place by the attorney general. The
appointment would meet with gen
eral approval throunhout the state
for Justice Bean is a popular and
able jurist.
j. M. Pogue was sheriff in {
Mississippi town. Sheriff Burnett
has received a letter asking for E
| contribution to monument to be
erected to the memory of Pogue
The latter lived with his family il
rooms over the Jail. A murdere
was in confinement in the cells be
low. On the 18th of last April,
mob of 13 masked men came at
o'clock in the morning, and de
manded that the prisoner be give,
up. Sheriff Pogue refused the de
mand, and terrible fight witt
pistols and guns resulted, Pogu
dying at his post Of duty, revolve
in hand. The prisoner was saved
and in due time received punish
: ment at the hands of the courts
A monument, high as the highes
\ and costly as the costliest ought t
be raised to the memory of brav
Sheriff Pogue.
! "A man who is too &c nomics
to subscribe for his home paper ser
his little boy to borrow the cop
! taken by his ne1ghbor. In hi
I haste the boy ran over a 81 stan
l Of bees, and soon looked like
warty summer squash. His cri
e reached his father, who ran to hi
assistance, and falling to notice
D barbed-wire fence, ran into il
e broke it down, cut handful of fes
from his anatomy, and ruined S
n pair of pants. The old COW too
y advantage of the gap in the fenc
and got into the corn6eld and xii
: ed herself eating green corr
a Hearing the racket, the wife raj
d upsetting a four-gallon churn I
= rich cream into a basket of p1avfl