The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-05-13

SASS hOduitdt1 t1ou, ooiSa, al AAsSo
Wednesday. and is the guest Of
Miss Sophia Elgin.
After several days visit with
friends in this city, Miss Rose
Greffoz left yesterday for Portland.
Frank Thrasher is slowly re-
covering from two weeks illness
with tonsilitis.
DIR. Withycombe returned
Wednesday from a week spent at
farmers institutes in Eastern Ore
gon and Washington.
Another needed improvement
on Main street has been made this
week. 1t is new crosswa1k be-
tween the Hemphill building and
the Chinese laundry.
Robert Jackson, Junior at o.
A. c., left Thursday for his home
in Portland, being summoned by a
message bearing the sorrowful in
teiligence that his mother had just
died.
The Baptist ladies conducted
candy stand beside the Johnson
millinery store, on Wednesday. and
realized $16 from the sale of home
made candies. The proceeds will
go towards painting the Baptist
church.
Among the crowd that was in
Corvallis to attend the circus We'd
nesday, youthful couple from ST.
letz attracted considerable attention.
The maiden was a pretty blonde
Anglo Saxon, and her escort was a
dusky Indian youth from the res
ervation.
An Albany dispatch to the
Portland Journal is as follows: Al:
ton B. Coates, Albany's famous
athlete, is now in Chicago, where
he is making great record. He
is in training and recently made a
I2o'yard hurdle race in IS seconds
flat. His trainers predict that he
will be worlds record breaker.
DIR. R. D. Burge ar
rived in this city Tuesday and
is looking for residence. Since
| graduating with the class OF
80 at o. A. c. DR.. Burgess has
completed a medical course in an
Eastern college and has returned tc
Corvallis for the, practice of his
profession.
Judge McFadden has been al
Dallas all week attending court,
where he was counsel in a big
damage suit brought by a Buens
Vista preacher against an Tndepen.
! denee man. Five thousand il
damages, and costs was sued fol
alleged defamation of character
!, Judge McFadden represented the
defendant. and won the case
The opposing attorneys were N. L
Butler and ]. K. Weatherford. Tht
defendant was w. S. McLane, {
former OAC student.3
Compliant by Deputy Attorn
ey Bryson was filed against Jak'
Blumberg yesterday, charging hin
with violation of the local optio1
law by sale of intoxicants. There
are said to have been numerous
, violations and abundance of evi
dence to convict. A complaint i
also ready to be filed against Joh1
Doe. who will plead guilty.
Twenty seven cents was tn
price of wool in Corvallis yesterday
"I will give Fl cents for good lot
in any AMOUNT was the remarl
of a buyer an hour before the Time
went to press. Twenty sever
cents now means that the wool OF
a sheep that was selling at 81 las
, autumn, is worth more that $2
Most of the Kings Valley wool
still unsold, but in other parts o
Benton the clip is nearly all con
tracted. Two lots, one of $50 am
one of 400 feeces are known t
be still in the hands of the grower
Two persons went from Ben
ton to the asylum Id one day thi
week. One was Russell Clifford
whose insanity and the fact that b
was brought here by an Iowa sher
if were related In Wednesday
Times. Thrice enroute, he resort
ed to subterfuges in an apparen
effort to elude his guard, but She1
if Burnett delivered him safely t
) the asylum authorities. The othe
| unfortunate is w. G. Green, one {
. the we'll known I Sawnin boys c
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