Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-01-02


| Charley Overlander returned to
his Lincoln county home yesterday,
having passed week here with
relatives and friends.
| DR.. A. C. Steckle won the %
|calibre rife offered by the Long
|shooting gallery as a prize for the
lperson making the highest record
of shots at the gallery within
: given period. The rifle was award
led 'sDoc" Saturday.
The high wind of Saturday
beached our free ferryboat across
the Willamette at this city high
and dry on the east coast of the
river. She ran up on the bank 80
high that she was out of commits
sion for several hours.
| DR.. E. E. Jackson, veterinary
lsurgeon, brought his family to this
|city last Saturday, and will make
Corvallis his permanent home.
The doctor comes highly recon-
mended and there is no donbt but
that he will build up good prac-
tice here.
DR.. R. D. Burgess has decided,
after locking over the field careful
/ ly, to engage in. the practice of
medicine at Toledo, Lincoln county.
This is a lively little place and is
the county seat of Lincoln and
should offer good field for a ply
sician of DR.. Burgess capabilities.
Taking effect January l, 1906,
the new time card of the G. & E
Will be issued, changing the leaving
time Of trains between Albany and
Corvallis as follows: Leave Albany
for Corvallis at 8 a. M, 12:45 p.
10. and 1886 p. m. Leave Corvallis
for Albany at6:3O a. m., 1l:30 a.
m. and 5 p. NJ. Sunday trains:
Leave Albany for Corvallis at 1886 |
p. m.: leave Corvallis for Albany
at $50 a. m.
Floyd Williams, the we'll known
spriLter and half-back of OAC,
who was recently appointed a
lieutenant in the Philippine con-
stabulary was married Wednesday
to Miss Luella VanCleve, for sew
eral years student of OAC. The
ceremony occurred at the home of
the eroom's brother in Polk county.
Lieutenant Williams is nnder orders
10 sail from San Francisco to Man
lila next week.
Do not forget that Mr.. West
brook. of the o. G. T. Company,
will make an address before the
citizens league this evening.
There are no more live topics be-
fore our people today than those
pertaining to free locks at Oregon
City and an open Willamette river
so far up as Corvsl!is the year
around. Aid this movement by
your presence this evening--you
may get an idea of value to your
self and to your community.
Ed Smith, who for many years
has held a position with J. R.
Smith & Co., of this city, has &C
cepted a situation with the great
hardware concern of Marshall
Well Hardware Company, of Port
land. He went to Portland Sun
day that he might get start early
in the year. Ed has one of tie
best positions in the giving of
large hardware establishment. He
will haye charge of the builders
department-light work and good
salary.
The City Meat Market propri-
etors, Messrs. Cady, Swingler and
McHenry, made good their New
Years resolution by opening up in
new quarters yesterday morning.
The market is now up-to-date in
every particular and is located just
north of the Ireland grocery. The
proprietors are energetic young fe}-
lows and will endeavor to treat
their patrons fairly in every way.
They are going to run p special de |
livery of their own and ma Ike
things convenient as possible for
patrons. Their ad. may be seen
in another column.
The elements were boisterous
Friday night and Saturday and the
wind unusually high for this coun-
try. Had enc been real certain
that his hat would stick to him he
could have enjoyed himself i'm
Intensely by standing in the street
and watching the hats Of
others sail about. Really, there
is nothing more amusing than to
watch some man of dignity chase
his hat for about hundred yards
through q muddy street, re ching
for his treasure on an average of
about every ten feet. 1t is fur ny
simpiy because we've al been there
land know exactly how mad the