The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-03-27
LOCAL LORE.
EEWS OF CORVALLIS AND
VICINITY TOLD IN BRIEF.

81 he Comings aud Go1ngs OF People
Social Gossip, Personal Men
ton and Other Items of
Public Interest.
-Miss Helen Y. Cra wford visit
ed Albany relatives Saturday.
-Pendleton is wide awake. She
has voted to pave ten blocks Of her
business streets.
Cal Thrasher left Monday 10
attend the f,neral of Mayor Charles
sGrissen Of MoMiunville.
-Heory Woriham is at home
again after an absence Of six weeks
at Newport.
-She-We never hear of any
women after-dirne speakers. He
No; can't wait unit! alter dinner.
They tell everything they know be-
fore dinner.
-Roseburg Review: The differ.
~ence between John D. Rockefeller
= Ill and John D. Rockefeller l is
that the former is an heir apparent
and the latter has no hair apparent.
-Lebapon Express-Adyance:
Miss Bertha Whitman returned
home yesterday from the o. A. G.
at Corvallis, where she has teen
taking a elk months course In mu-
sic. She will resume teaching mu-
sic the first of next month.
"A letter received in Eugene
from an Fastener says: II am
thinking of locating in Eugene,
but l hear the typhoid fever is rag.
ing at that plsce so much that the
town is qusrantined and trains are
not allowed to stop, and the town
: has had to be helped by the state -
Albany Democrat: Maud
Hoffman, an actress with nation.
al reputation, who formerly resided
10 Corvallis, and has several good
friends 10 Albany, Is said to have
recently declared that when she re-
tires from the stage she will be glad
so return to Oregon to spend the
rem aiming days of her life.
Class work for the spring term
at the college was resumed today.
Naturalization began yesterday and
up to noon sos had registered, tt e
number being 63 more than at the
close OF tie same day lastyear. The
spring enrolment is thus the lasg-
est by far D the history Of the col.
iege.
Mr.. and Ms. Quinlan expect
TO leave Saturday. They are al.
ready packing their household f
fects, preparatory to departure,
They go 10 Hollywood for visit
With rel4tives before Lientenan'
Quirlan joins his regiment at ForI
Winga,e. New Mexico, in
May. Mr.. and Mrs. Currin are to
occupy .hsir hous-.
The p .'e line Of the city wattl
works hiss rcached d The cart of Cor,
wallis. As the TIMES goes to press
the excavators have passed into JET
ferson street between Fifth anG
Sixth, and expect to complete thi:
end of the line by tomorrow nigh
or early Thursday morning. Aftel
tina. there is three miles of line te
be put in at thu other end and tht
Rork will be done. Mr.. Mitchell
expects to finish it by within 81
days, or by May 1st. Engineer
Miller will soon begin construction
of the reservoir.
Eugene Guard: It may be In
teresting to note that Attorney R
S. Bryson, who has the scarlet fe
yer, contracted the disease by occu
pying a room in the Commercia
Club boi!ding as an Office, the room
several years ago when the build
ing was used as q residence having
been occupied by a scarlet fever pa
tient, Mr.. Bryson is secretary o
the Com mercial Club, and has spen
great deal Of his time in tba
rOoD. When the building was NOV
ed recently 10 make room for DR.
Paine's fine new brick block to b.
occupied by the club, 1t was givel
a shaken up, and the scarlet fsve
germs which had remained in tn
walls we're communicated to Mr.
Bryson- This story may seen
strange, but this Is the only explain
alton the physicians can give as t.
how Mr.. Bryson contracted III
disease.
AT a meeting Monday night
the water board voted to construc
the distribution system in Corvalli
OF wood staYe pipe, such as ha
been used on the pipe line. It woul,
have cost $8, ,240 additional to hav
built the town mains of steel pipe
Expendi itures and estimates IN dot