The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-08-09
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Indian Head linen at Kline's
Free embroidery lesson at Ho-
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Bodine, Phone 29o.
The family of A. J. Johnson
went to Portland Friday to spend
a fortnight at the Fair.
Miss Edna Irvine returned
Monday from a visit at the home of
J. F. Steiwer near Jefferson.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Callahan left
Saturday for Elk City, where they
expect to spend month or more.
Mrs. James and daughter are
late arrivals from the East, and are
guests of the formers sister, Mrs.
E. F. Green.
1t is a great opportunity to
take lessons this week on eastern
designs for waists and stocks. Miss
Hamrick brings such exclusive
novelties west each season.
Wheat threshed Friday on Lee
Henkle's Io-acre farm across Marys
: river, made yield of 20 bushels
per acre. The field of the Fischer
mill threshed about the same time
made "a bushels.
In the first Williamson trial
the two men who hung the jury
offered to convict Gesner and Biggs
if the other jurors would acquit
Williamson. The same proposition
was made by some of those for ac-
quittal in the late trial. Apparent
ly if Gesner and Biggs were tried
together and Williamson was given
separate trial, the former would
be convicted.
The residence built by Mrs. F.
A. Helm and owned by w. O..
Heckart in the south end of town
changed hands Monday. H. Har-
rison of Summit was the purchaser,
and $500 was the price paid.
The sale was made by Robinson &
Stevenson. Mr.. Harrison is not to
occupy the property, but merely
acquired it as an investment for idle
money.
The Whitaker hop contract
case, which has been appealed to
the supreme court, is being prepar-
ed for hearing before that tribun-
al. 1t is suit fo- damages
brought by Kola Neis as admins.
traitor Of the estate of William Fa-
Der, wherein plaintiffs allege they
had contract tor the delivery of
hops to them, which allegation the
Whitaker's deny, claiming there
was no contract. A jury at the
November term of the Benton
county circuit court, after hearing
the evidence, pronounced for the
Whitaker's.
w. D. Barclay and S. A.
Tharp, who were members of the
famous Williamson jury, arrived
home Saturday. Both showed Wis
ible signs of the worrying effect ol
the long wrestle with the case and
the two days OF confinement in the
little jury room. Friends of theirs
said, in fact, that each looked like
he had been to an Irish wake
They were fifteen days on the case,
They were as hours in the jury
room. Both were for conviction
The inry stood six for convict +
and six for acquittal.
1t is known now that the dis
agreeably hot days of two or three
weeks ago were more fatal days il
Willamette than any known in {
long time. They were fatal finan
cially, in that they played havoc
with the wheat crop. All grail
seems to have then been in th'
dough. The intense heat of th,
period, with the mercury soaring a
1o2 degrees in Corvallis, arrested
the filling process and resulted in
shrunken berry. This is the the
ory of nearly all farmers. 1t is al
most the first time in Willamette ii
which few days have done seriou
damage to growing crops. An in
cident that added to the reduced
yield of grain is doubtless the aphi
according to the view of some farm
ers, who think the bugs did con
siderable injury.
How glorious to be small
boy, not for the swimnings, not TO
the juvenile athletics, not for tn
hours with nothing on the gree,
earth to do, not for the fun of chas
ing cats or tick-tacking the neigh
bors. but just for reveling in thos'
theories of life and circumstanc
for which urchins have always beel
famed. For instance, here is th
way, the secret soulful way, min'
e