The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-08-05
HARVEST TIMES.
And Outing Season-Their Effect in
Town-The @@Mora1 We1fare''
Movement.

Harvesting operations are in full
blast, and it is the dull time in
town now. A man hunted farmers
on the street the other day and was
able to find but one during the
whole day. To look up and down
Main street sometimes. it would
seem that there is not likely to be
another in town for week. Be-
sides this depressing influence there
is the absence of those away on va
cations. Corvallis has citizens of
this kind scattered from the Fair to
Frisco, and from the heart of the
Cascades to the line of sand beach
where the ocean roars perpetual.
The one and only thing that
deadens the lonely effect of the pres
ent Good Old Summer Time, is
the Corvallis Social Athletic Club.
For the moment, it is a perpetual
fount of interest. 1t is more talked
about than the Williamson trial, or
John D. Rockefeller now called, the
"greatest criminal of the age" 1t
is, by reason of its unusual charact-
er, very much in the public eye,
as it were. A big shipment of wet
goods came to the place via the
Westside Wednesday night, and
that gave those interested some.
thing to tell their neighbors and
friends about. Now and then, too,
persons in pairs, or trios, or other
wise disappear off of Main street,
walk down to the headquarters and
there pass out of view, and that is
another source of remark. Wheth-
er the act in such cases is merely
social, or purely athletic, or a mix
ture of both or neither, is what OBJ
servers speculate on. With F'mor-
al welfare" as a part of the purpose
of the club, as announced in the
articles of Incorporation, these Wis
its in day eime and otherwise, it
would seem, ought to be beyond
criticism, because who knows? AT.
ter the brethren get inside, per.
haps they drop down on their mar
row bones, raise their eyes to higI
heaven and pray earnestly for thei1
own moral welfare and for that ot
their brother members.
| The club authorities have pre-.
pared and hung on the building, {
huge sign. 1t reads thus: "Cor
wallis Social and Athletic Club
Members admitted only -Trespasser.
will be handled according to law
Eventhegrammatica1 construction il
the members admitted only" ane
what that expression actually ane
really means, has come in for dis
cussion, Whether it means tha
''only members are admitted u
or whether members are only ad
rnitted and not let out again unit
they have said their prayers ane
had drink is one of the problem
of the big rag sign. These ant
forty other things connected witt
the club are a we'll spring Of per
ennial interest that serve to interes
| a dull town while the summe
hours and harvest time are gliding
swiftly away. Without it all tn
days would surely be very mucl
elongated and the hours be yer,
slow.
Besides, they say it looks 1ik
the good old times before the droutl
to see couple of the brethre.
marching down to the club, just a
they used to do to Wo1dt's, tha
they get there, the same old re
freshment in the same old way, an
tat it is all a dream of oft-return
ing and perpetual bliss.
Och, Local Option! what S loca
option when there IS good, law
( abiding club, like the Corvallis Sc
cial and Athletic Club!