The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-05-27
NEWS OF CORVALLIS AND
VICINITY TOLD IN BRIEF.
The Comings and Goings of People
Social Gossip. PERSONAL Men
ton and Other Items of
Public Interest.

The senior excursion runs to
Newport and return Monday.
Mrs. Anna Len1ley arrived
Thursday from Portland to visit
Corvallis friends until after Memor
ial day.
The party that borrowed J. B.
Irvine's garden plow last fall will
please return the same at his earli-
sst convenience.
County Clerk Wade and
Assessor Lutz both of Lincoln
county, were Corvallis visitors
Thursday.
Business is lively over at the
clerk' office since it became ueces-
sary to obtain a hunters license
before going after game. Twenty
licenses have SO far been issued to
Benton sportstnen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Anthony
and Mr.. and Mrs. Hathaway lett by
eeam Thursday for Eastern Wash
ington. They will go up the Co.
lumbia by boat, teaming the re-
mainder of the journey.
4 Services at M. E. church,
South, Sunday morning appropri.
ate to Memorial Day. Subject at
night, while ye have the light"
Sunday school at 10 a. m.
j. H. Wilson left Wednesday
fpr Nevada where he is to enter the
government service as an attorney
in the irrigation department. He
Is TO be temporarily employed on
ahe Carson -Truckee project.
The Baptist Church will be
closed ON Sunday, but reopened on
Lords Day, June 4th, beautifully
renovated. All the usual services
will be held and all vel, ONE.
-"The Revealing Christ will be
a,e subject for the morning sermon
at the Presbyterian church. Even
ing service at 8 p. m., subject,
''Our Dead Heroes Memorial
service,
Morning sermon at the, Cou-
gregational church, The Two
Sons, or The Saving Power of a
Noble Impulse" Evening sermon,
'..The Man of the North; The Man
of the South" a memorial service.
Service at Plymouth at 500 o'clock.
Miss Gail Laughlin who is
touring the country lecturing un-
der the auspices Of the state equal
suffrage association will deliver a
sec!ure entitled The Progress OF
Government" at the Court House
IN this city Wednesday evening
May 3Ist at 500 o'clock. Miss
Laughlin is a graduate of Welles-
ley College and also from the law
department of Cornell University
and comes highly recommended as
a speaker of great ability having a
national reputation as an orator and
sia;nker.
The Southern. Pacific is fgur-
ing on the question of running the
Albany local to Eugene. If the
plan be adopted, change in the
arriving and departing time of the
isain at Albany will result, and
with it, similar change in the
morning and evening train into
Corvallis. The plan Is to leave
Portland at six o'clock in the even
ing, instead of four as now. That
would bring the evening train into
Corvallis at 10 p. m. The leaving
lime out of Corvallis in the morn.
ing would be but little changed
from the present, though the star,
from Albany would be half an hour
later.
Work is progressing rapidly
ia the changes that are being made
in the Laferty brick. The ceiling
has been raised throughout, and all
the partitions below long ago dis
appeared, leaving big airy room
on the lower floor. Windows have
been put in the rear walls, and the
work of transformation in the ap
pearance of the latter will be {
sweeping change, and one to ado
greatly to the perspective of from
street. The lower story is to b.
entirely of iron and plate glass
There will be two entrances and {
stairway. The front will be rur
mp a full two story height, and five
windows put in the upper portion
30 that in case the roof ever b.
raised no change will be necessary
IN the front. The building is to b
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