Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-01-13

Usual services at the Baptist
church on Lords Day.
E. D. Briggs registered at the
Hotel Corvallis, Wednesday. from
Eugene.
E. S. Barness, of Bay View,
Oregon, was a business visitor here
Wednes day.
E. J. Metzser has been confined
to his home this week with an at
tack of grippe, but is aole to be
at business now.
w P. Laferty and family are
making arrangements to occul y
the Presbyterian parsonage in the
near future, as their home.
Supt. Denman and Recorder
Vincent go to Alsea today to de-
liver addresses before the Alsea
Grange at an opening meeting to-
morrow.
Lewis Hartley returned yester-
day to his mines in Bohemia dis
trict in Southern Oregon, after
sp nd1ng the holidays with his
family in this city.
E. J. Garrow expects to leave
about Jan. 20; for Callf,rnia, where
he is in the lum ber- bnsiuess. He
will visit San Francisco end other
points enroute.
Weldon M. Jones, recently of
Monmouth, mas purchased an in :
terest in the G. E Hout meat
market in this city, and moved here
to reside.
Clarence Hout, formerly of Cor
Wallis, but more recently of Mon
mouth, where he has been in the
butcher business, has sold out and
moved back to this city to | We.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Garrow leave
tomorrow for Salem. where they
will visit relatives for short time.
They will return to Corvallis, be-
fore they leave for California.
S. A. Brabant arrived Monday
from Duluth, Mimi, for weeks
visit at the home of Theodore Gar
row. Mr.. Brabant is in the lum-
Der business at present in Portland,
but has been visiting his home in
Minnesota.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nixon, the new
proprietors of the Occidental hotel,
expect to open that place for busi-
ness some time next week. The
furnace has been rebuilt, and other
improvements made that will make
this first. class hotel,
Miss .Eda Jacobs accompanied
her sister, Miss Sarah, to Salem on
yesterday mornings early train,
where she will visit friends, while
Miss Sarah has accepted position
as stenographer of Legislative
committee.
One of the Yaquina crahberies is
doing quite land an extensive ex-
port business nowadays. On yes.
terday's train from that place there
was about 20 cases of fine large
crabs labeled to Portland market,
besides several cases that were con
signed to Corvallis markets.
| A stranger by the name of Hart
ley was taken to the asylum yes
terday, from this place. He wa'
first noticed Tuesday near the Cor
Wallis & Eastern crossing and act
ing queerly, and frightening al
the women and children he met
and Chief cf Police Lane was mott
fed, and captured the fellow, bring
, ing him to the city Jail. Wednes
! day he was examined and commit
ted to the asylum. The fellow wa
Of the hobo, character, and thougl
not violently insane, was irrespon
sible and unable to care for him
self. 1t could not be learned wher
. he hailed from.
This office has received word tina
t the qualifying examination to b
j, taken by applicants for the Rhode
Q scholarship for 1905, will be hel
: at the university in Eugene Tues
/; day and Wednesday, January 17-ls
!; 1905. The following time table wi
!; be used in conducting the examine
tiops. January 1.-THE transls
ton of Latin into English; Lati
+. prose and arithmetic are the sui
8 jects to be covered. January Il
q translation from Greek into. Ems
: lish; Latin and Greek grammal
Q algebra or geometery. Those de
9 string to take examination WI
i have not sent in their names shoul
: notify President Campbell imme
{ diately.
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