Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-08-18

daughter, MISS MARY, arrived nome
a couple of days ago from an outing
at the coast.
O. J. Blackledge and family have
been looking over the Portland
exposition this week. So have Cecil
Cathey and family.
Miss Eva Starr left yesterday
for Portland, where she will be the
guest of relatives for week or two
while she visits at the Fair.
Mrs. T. w. D;lley and family
went to Portland yesterday to visit
at the Fair for a week. Mr.. Dilly'
had his visit last week and is now
keel ing house alone.
DR.. N. B. Avery arrived in Cor
wallis a few days ago from the
coast, where he passed several
weeks. He expects to be in this
city for a fortnight to come.
The remainssof the little son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Lilly were
inferred in Odd Fellows cemetery
Tuesday afternoon. The bereaved
parents have the sympathy of all.
s. L. Kline went to Portland
Wednesday morning as delegate
from this city to the Trans Mississ-
ippi Congress. DR.. Jas. Witty
combe and John Allen are also del
egates from Corvallis.
Mrs. Jesse Spencer and daughter,
Miss Hattie. arrived home a few
days ago from the Fair. Of late
Miss Spencer has been making her
home with an aunt in Cove, Or,
This was On account of her health,
which just at present is good.
Mrs. L. L. Porter, who for sew
eraI days has been visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Spang-
Ter of this city, departed for her
home in Oregon City Wednesday
morning. Before coming to Cor
wallis she had been at Newport for
an outing.
An enjoyable evening was passed
Tuesday at the home of Mrs.
Wick's in honor of George Pruett,
of Oakland, California, a brother of
Ralph Bruett, a clerk at S. L.
Kline's. The evening was passed
with games of cards, conversation
and general mirth making. Deli
cious refreshments were served.
George Pruett departed Wednesday
for trip into Eastern Oregon.
James Chambers was in from
Kings Valley couple of days ago
to consult a physician about very
bad wrist that he was carrying in
a sling. It appears that the trou
BILE started on account of James
squeezing and picking pimple be-
fore it had ripened. He has not
practiced piano any to speak of for
awhile, although he hopes to soon.
This was his second trip to Corval-
lis-the first time he underwent
the ordeal Of having the lancet ap-
piled.
During the first of the week,
Frank Sets arrived here from his
Five Rivers farm with quite a band
of sheep which he disposed of. He
then went down to Polk county
and purchased drove of 80 head
of goats and started for home with
them. He left Corvallis Wednes-
day morning and expected to be
about three days making the drive.
Mr.. Seits not only wants the goats
on account of the mohair they pro.
duce, but because they are pretty
good things to clear lands.
Tuesday forenoon saw the termi-
nation Of three or four days har-
vesting at OAC in the way of
threshing. Goodness only knows
how many times they made a
clean up, as the grain threshed
was in little ',jags" Of wheat, oats,
barley, rye and vetch. All Of the
various grains and grasses thresh-
ed were almost wholly in the way
/ of experiment and of no one thing
was their any great quantity. A
small patch of ground would be de-
voted to certain thing and this
plot of earth would be carefully
measured ane after the threshine
an estimate of the yield per acre
would be made in order to deter
mine the yield. Some of the wheat
went nearly go bushels per acre
and we are informed that this was
Jon ground that had been rotated
first with clover, then corn ane
lastly with wheat.
What might have proved a ser
| ious mishap was narrowly avertee
Wednesday shortly after noon. Viii
liam Dixon and wife drove up in ,
buggy in front of the establishment
lof J. M. Nolan & Son and Mr.
Dixon started to alight from the We
lhicle. just as he was getting out
the buggy horse, trife skittish b.
1.-The way, became frightened an,