Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-01-11
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

this week to enter OAC as a studnt
Miss Ella johnson, the miIliner
is the guest for week of relative
in Albany.
Miss Marie Danneman has beer
clerking, in the Graham & WeliI
drug store this week.
Mrs. Homer Lilly of Wrenn has
been the guest this week of Corval
lis relatives.
Mrs. Amelia Schubert arrived
home Tuesday from a visit with
relatives at Monroe.
Mrs. G. B. Starr and daughters
Misses Sylvia and Mamie, have
returned from a weeks visit in Port
land.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. A. Mosier moved
Monday into the Miller house on
third street.
John Sutherland arrived home
this week from Portland where he
has been for the past few weeks.
Mrs. Susan Starr of this city is
quite ill at the home of relatives at
Bellefountain, and it is feared she
has pneumonia.
Miss Sophia Hartley is seriously
i'll with appendicitis, at the home
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
Hartley, in this city.
Mrs. W. w. Ireland and Miss
Bessie Ireland have been visiting
relatives and friends in Independ-
ence this week.
George Henkle, of this city, is
now in California On visit to his
son, Raymond, who is engage in
operating pharmacy at San Jose
- Mr.. and Mrs. J. R. Mccoy of
Oakesdale, Wash, left Tuesday for
San Francisco, after months visit
with G.. G. Newton and family in
Benton county. From Frisco Mr..
Mccoy and family go to Arizona for
visit befors returning home.
The Washington installed offic RS
at their hall Monday night, as fol-
.ows: P. P, w. H. Dilley; pres ).
Norton Adams; vice, MISS Effie
Kiger; chap, w. Newton; esc,rt,
J-e King; asst escort, Bert Senger;
sentinel o. .. Senger; guard,
George Whiteside; musician, Miss
Libbie Rice. ..-.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Lenger OF
this city are in receipt of a letter
from their daughter, Mrs. Feed
Hall of Stockton California, inform
ing them that her husband is in
very poor health, being scarcely
able to be about now, but that she
has employment and is doing well.
Both are former Corvallis young
people.
The foothills west of Corvallis
are white with snow, the flood of
last week Las been followed by
hard freezc this week, and while the
thermometer has hung around the
26 to 80 above zero notch and the
sky has been cloudless, it has never
theless been cold enough to cause
no end of discussion among local
residents and Us it cold enoug b for
your" is literally 1.-The question of
the day"
A list of very useful statistics on
the San Francisco fire has lst been
issued. This list gives the area
burned in square miles, acres and
otherwise, city blocks burned, hui d.
ings destroyed, value Of buiIdings |
burned, aud various other informa-
tion of value These statistics have
been compiled and copyrighted bgl
T. e. Wilson, a former Corvallis |
boy, who is we'll remembered b.
many local residents.
o. J. Blackledge purchased l2o
acres Of timber land near Belle
fountain, three wears ag>, for 1920
and even at that price his |
venture was "smiled" at by certain
persons in that locality. Wednes-
day Mr.. Blackledge received an
offsr for the same property Of 81 800
cash, which proves the truth OF the
Old saying that ''he laughs best
who laughs last.
"Ths Belle of japan" gieva at the
Corvallis opera house Tnesdsy |
night, WIS lefreshingly new in
plot and characters, dealing as it
does : ith japanese life and custo ms,
and the performance met with in
stan; favor from the good audience
present. Several very clever per
formers are in the cast, besides
which q frst class japanese luggier |