The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-08-26
LOCAL LORE.
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Wv AAHoA1
years graduating class at Q. A. G.
was Corvallis visitor Wednesday.
Miss Naomi Cowan left We'd
nesday for Lebanon after weeks
visit with friends.
BOX says, poverty is the
greatest inheritance man can
leave his children" /
Mrs. Orner, late Of Iowa, a
sister-iu-1aw of Mrs. E. E. White, !
moved this week into the Wright
house on Third street,.
In the matter of the estate of
the late Hulda A Brown, G. w.
Fuller, F. E. Edwards and E. P.
Irwin have been appointed apprais-
ers. s.,
DR.. Newth Of Philomath was
called to Elk City Saturday to at,
tend Mrs. Blair of that place who is
suffering from stroke OF paralysis.
j. A. French. county clerk of
Wal1owa county, Oregon, arrived
Wednesday to join his family who
are guests at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. B. Irvine.
Beef COWS are quoted by local
butchers at two cents per pound;
lambs, four cents and good wethers
three cents, or may be little bet
ter.
After a visit at the home of J.
A. Spangler. Mrs. Smith and
little son left Tuesday for their
home at Los Angeles.
MA, they amt no doubt
about it-our William is either 60
in ter be genius or fool. }"
"Land sakes, pal What makes you
think so?'' 'I jest ketched him
tryin' ter drown the cat in the we'll
ter see if the story was true ab-ut it
havin' nine lives"
Wheat fields on the Manly
Currier farm made yield of thirty
bushels per acre, the best so far re-
ported, save on the college farm.
The next best crop was in the
Newton neighborhood west of town
where the field gave 28 bushels.
The pastor of the Methodist
Episcopal church announces that
for several weeks while the work of
changing the church edifice is 60
ing on, no services or Sunday
school will be held. 1t will require
several weeks to finish the remodel
ing Of the building. Annouce
ments will soon be made with ref
ence to the special reopening ex.
ercises.
The woman at Portland who
let stranger handle her purse or
the excuse that he was connected
with the bank from which she hac
just drawn it. and failed to get i
back, has just had the amount
something over four hundred dol
lars, made good by charitable sub
scription.
Albany Democrat:-W. H
Hogan has secured a two-month
old chicken which is indeed a curl
osity in the poultry line. It is
Plymouth Rock. Instead of he
legs being in the middle, balancin!
the body, they are in the rear ant
she walks, or rather waddles, witt
her body vertic1e, a sort of duel
walk, presenting spectacle that i
humorous as we'll as odd.
The Corvallis painter who ha'
a fashion of thrashing his wifi
came to grief at Oregon City. H
paid heavy fine, after serving
day in Jail and was compelled
yield up 500 to pay for the divore
proceedings his wife has instituted
That secured him liberty, and b
has sought new fields and pasture
green. The account of the late:
doings appears in another co1um
as dispatch from Oregon City.
Floyd Williams has abandone
his surveying job on account of a
injury sustained in fall while {
work. The party was 80 mile
from Gates in the heart of the Ca:
cades when the popular sprinter fe
and received severe sprain in th
ankle, which made continuation {
his duties in running one Of the il
struments, impossible. He mad
his way by easy stages to Gate:
and reached Corvallis by trai
Tuesday night. His injury wi
not interfere with his efficiency o
the football field this fall.
Patrons on R. F. rout
number q are hedging against #
ture vicissitudes by repair of th
road traversed by their carrie1
Seven thousand pieces of corduro
have been cf1f and w Foster ar,