Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-05-30
local AND PERSONAL

Saturday.
Tomorrow evening Mrs. Thos. M
Catch will entertain the senior class
of OAC with a tea at her home.
In our last issue a mistake was
made in the date of the bacca-
laureate sermon. The real date is
Sunday, May IL.
Miss Marian Chappell expects to
leave for Portland, today. to be the
guest of Portland friends for a
couple of weeks.
Rev. Feese's sermon on Memorial
Day last Sunday in the presence OF
the G. A. R. and W. R. c. and
many others is spoken of as a most
meritorious effort.
Judge Waters made the trip to
Portland and back last Saturday.
He went down on business in con-
nection with the Benton cou 2ty
exhibit at the Lewis and Clark
Fair.
Saturday, Amber & Waters re-
port to have negotiated the sale of
the J. Wallace property in Philo-
math, house ana two lots, to D. w.
Mael. The consideration was
$1,050, cash,
County Clerk Moses will leave
for Roseburg, Thursday, to attend
the annual conference of the NJ :
E. church, South. The conference
will convene Thursday and hold
over until Sunday evening.
Quite a number of sport-loving
people came down from Eugene,
Saturday, to witness the various
events of the field meet between
u of o and OAC. Many Of our
guests came down in automobiles
Mrs. J. M. Nolan and Miss May
Gearhard drove over to Lebanon
last Wednesday to visit friends and
take in the sights. During their
stay they visited the paper mills
and were greatly surprised and
interested in what they saw. They
arrived home Thursday.
N. B. Trayiss and family arriv-
ed in this city last Thursday from
Olds, Alberta, N. W. T., Canada.
They have rented house in this
city and are domiciled for time at
any rate. Mr.. Traviss is very
fayorably impressed with what he
has seen of Benton 80 far.
The 'Wreck of the Herperus''
and other great works will be pro-
duced in the Opera House next
Friday evening. Some Of our finest
city vocalists will appear in the
leading parts, there will be sixty
voices in the chorus, and all will
be sustained by orchestra.
A few days ago J. S. S. Powell
professional gardener operating
in Linn county few miles east oil
this city, presented a member of
this force with single head of
lettuce that weighed % ounces.
This is about as large as head Of
-Eary York cabbage, and is pretty
hard to beat. The lettuce was
grown from seed this year.
This is Memorial Day! Through
out this great land of ours thous-
ands upon thousands of people will
observe the honored custom of visit
ing the graves of departed relatives
and friends and placing thereon a
floral tribute to their memory. II
is an occasion of deepest reflection
stirring to the depths the hearts
Of the great American people.
Last Friday Misses Grace Huff
Hazel Weller and Josephine Fuller
ton, teachers in our public schools
joined forces and banqueted th'
various pupils of their respective
grades The scene of action was il
the new school building and it goe,
without saying that tie little chill
drer, had the time of their lives
Think Of three young ladies under
taking to banquet such a bevy 0
little chaps--no wonder their pupils
like them.
Many people in this section will
remember Miss Rose Mossie, wh,
attended OAC a couple ofyears ago
A number of invitations were re
Gently sent by her TO friends il
Corvallis, inviting them to be pres
ent at her graduation next Thurs
day evening, June l, in Tacoma
Wash, from St. Joseph's Hospita
Training School for Nurses. Ac
companying the invitations wer
> programs promising splendid enter
tainment for those who might at
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