Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-07-21

Richard Zahn came out from Al
sea, Monday, for a short business
visit.
J. C. Hammel, proprietor of Hotel
Corvallis, now owns bus team.
He purchased quite fine team of
bays, last Tuesday, for exclusive
use on the bus.
P. M. Zierolf arrived home We'd
nesday from Portland, where he
had been receiving treatment for
his rheumatism. His condition is
much improved.
This evening T. T. Batnhart will
start for Los Angeles, Calf. He
has the promise of lots of work
when he reaches his destination,
and at good wages. Mr.. Barnhart
is a good workman and we hope
him the success that he merits
when he arrives in his new field.
If satisfactory in Los Angeles he
will move his family there before
the rains set in this fall.
The ladies of the United Evan
gelical church enjoyed a splendid
patronage last Tuesday evening,
the occasion being their ice cream
social. The total receipts were
I$42.5O, a most splendid total. The
ladies request us to express their
thanks to all who so kindly re-
mem bered them on this occasion
The lawn was nicely illuminated
with electric lights and japanese
lanterns.
J. P. Logan, the Kings Valley
miller, was in town on business,
Wednesday. Mr.. Logan has just
completed a wheat house of $4,000
bushels capacity. He says every
thing is good with himself and in
his section. His mill is running
steadily and has a capacity of 30
barrels of -four per day. 1t is a
water-power mill and is situated
on the Luckiamute river.
Simpson q Fisher, the breeders
of Buff Leghorns at the Buff Leg
horn Farm near Albany, Or, have
gone out of business. They have
sold their entire lot of birds to F.
L. Miller at Corvallis and Mr.. Mil
Ter will put them on his thirty acre
poultry farm. Things around this
place will have an entirely golden
hue and it is doubtless safe guess
to say that the income will have
the same color.--Northwest Poultry
Journal.
Laurence Helm arrived in Cor
Wallis last Monday evening from
his home in Weatherford, Texas
He has been absent for eleven years
and during this time fortune has
been more kind to him than to the
majority of mankind. For a time
he engaged in the dairy business
but found this too strenuous and
|got out of it and is now handling
real estate. He is a son of Mrs
f. A. Helm of this city and can
boast of host of friends in this
his boyhood home. He will leave
for Weatherford next Monday.
The following dispatch has beer
). sent cut from Grants Pass: Prof
A. B. Cordley, of the Oregon State
Experiment Station has returned tt
Corvallis after spending severa
days visiting the Josephine county
melon fields. The purpose of Prof
Cordley's visit is to identify the
strange bug that is destroying th,
melon vines of. the fields abou
Grants Pass. A number of vine
killed by the pest and several speci
mems of the bugs were taken BY
{ Prof. Cordley to the experimen
station, where he hopes to max
Identification and discover metho,
of destroying the pest.
The death of Charley Tower oe
Cured last Tuesday night at th
: poor farm. A month or two ag
the county authorities had hin
taken out to the farm, as he was i
! :, a helpless condition and needle
! ! attention. Old age and asthmati
! ! trouble, combined in degree wit
consumption, neglect of himse
previous to his becoming a count
charge, are the reported cause {
his death. Coroner Wilkins We
+ among Mr.. Towers old time friend
), Wednesday, seeing what could
b done in the way of burying the r
Z. mains in grave other than in tf
n potter's field. 1t was arranged
V inter the remains in Crysta Lal
! cemetery yesterday. Nothing
II known Of Mr.. Towers early histor
+ He had been an inhabitans of th
(. city many years.
. A number of months sgo Will