The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-07-27


Friday for few days outing at
the Coast
-Excavating has begun on the
A. ]. johnson building. The dirt
is delivered about town at 80 cents
per load and upward, according to
distance.
Rev. and Mrs. E. 7. Simpson
and children left on Fridays West
side train for a visit with relatives
in and around Portland and Van
couver, Wash. They expect to
sail for Honolulu the latter part of
August.
Between three and four hund.
red people attended the annual ice
cream social at Mcfarland chapel
Thursday evening. The eighty.
foot shed was beautifully decorated
with bunting, frs and fern. and
japanese lanterns lighted the inter-
ior. The sum Of $85 was realized.
Corvallis is to have another
church building and another church
congregation. It is to be Ger
man Lutheran church and is to be
located on a lot and a half of
ground purchased recently of Mr..
Gordmacher northwest of the col
lege. The German Lutheran Con-
gregation, incorporated, has been
organized for the purpose of pro-
noting the new church.
AN addition is to be made to
the Christian church. 1t is to be
lecture and Sunday school room
and is TO be 20 x 36 feet. 1t is to
be located on thu south side of the
present structure and the work of
building it is to begin in about 10
days. It will surmount basement
as is the case with the present edi-
fee, but the understructure will not
be put in finished condition until
later on.
Fifty years of continuous
teaching in many and varied edu-
cational institutions, is the record
Of President T. M. Catch who, af.
ter this year, will retire from the
presidency of the agricultural col
lege at Corvallis. The amount oi
good that he has done in this hall
century of labor is beyond compu
tation or estimation. His works
when-years hence, we hope-he
passes away, will live after him.
Portland Journal.
Dairy meetings are being held
in Willamette by G. L. Mckay
dairy expert from the Agriculture
college of Iowa, known as the low:
State College, located at Ames
Such a meeting was held in Albany
|; Tuesday and at Eugene Wednes
. day. Mr.. Mckay is accompanied
by DR.. Withycombe and others
Wednesday forenoon, the party Wis
. tied the State college. The meet
ings are being held at the instance
of the Hartman railroad lines, ane
Harvey Lounsberry, district freigh,
agent is one of the promoters.
Peter Wilson, formerly of Cor
Wallis, was buried recently at Ash
land. Several years ago he wa!
employed for some time in the Cor
Wallis FIGURING Mills. going from
. here to Gold Hill where until his
death he was employed in the Jesse
Houck Touring mill. Mr.. Houcl
recently sold the mill to a company
Peter Wilson was brother of AL.
, bert Wilson, former owner in th'
Benton Mills, and was aged 4S O.
so years. His ma1ady was ca nee:
, of the stomach.
While Walter Kline and his
mother were out driving last even
ing they had occasion to cross the
bridge In front of Bob Lambersou' s
house on the Fischer mil! road
There is an eight inch hole in tn
= decking of the bridge aud hind leg
: of the horse went into it as far a
: the hook joint. The limb was ex
, tricated with some difficulty, afte
: it had been badly bruised ane
S skinned, and is now under the treat
! ment of a veterinarian. Repairs
+. are said to be needed for the bridge
: in question as we'll as other bridge.
/. in the vicinity
-Apropos of the supreme cour
decision annikilating exemption
a for householders, there is on file a
the sheriff.s Office in Benton al
r opinion exactly in line with the de
cision, and which was rendered i,
! 1904. In the process of tax-col
lecting a case came up in whicl
: Sheriff Burnett sought legal advic
: on the point in question and Depu
;" ty District Attorney Bryson the
e wrote an opinion in which the ez
!. emption was held to be unconstitr
S tional and on the same lines a
j. those now laid down hx, the o.,