The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-09-25
Mrs. McKellips spent Sunday

mtes NS1ASI1iPS cpCut 0oAooy
with friends in Salem.
Ten days picking in hop yard
by Mrs. G. G. Huff aud her daugh.
ter Mamie, netted them $66 and
their expenses.
"A hundred people journeyed to
Newport on the excursion Sunday.
The day was superb and the trip ea.
joyable, according to the statement
of those who went.
Walter Lyon of the Indepenl-
ence Enterprise, passed through
town yesterday, en- route home from
attendance at the annual meeting
Of the Oregon Press Association at
Newport.
Mr.. and Mrs. Conrad Myers,
of Albany, made visit to Corval-
lis last Sunday in order to attend
the funeral of John McGee. After
the funeral aud short visit with
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Pbile they re-
turned to their home en- the evening
train.
"A new wooden building is to be
erected next door north of the new
furniture and secondhand store
Just opened in the Waters building.
1t is to have fourteen. foot frontage
and be SO feet deep. 1t will have a
glass front and be modern in all
particulars. Charles Heckart is to
be the builder and Virgil Waters
the owner.
-Four handsome new residences
are nearing completion in Philo-
math, either of which would be
creditable edifces in a far larger
city. One Is for Charles Davis, the
we)l-known druggist; one for DR..
Newth, popular physician; third
for Alfred Brown and the fouHh for
Ben Ellsworth.
Hop picking, according to Sam
M ore, has its analogy with corn
picking. 1t is exactly the same mo-
tion be says, and the man who can
gather Is bushels of corn a Gay can
pick 10 boxes of hops day. He
demonstrated his theory the other
day by picking 10 boxes for four
consecutive days of nine and a hall
hours each, Or more than box an
hour. He applied exactly the same
motion and the same planning that
he used to apply in gathering corn
In Illinois.
The preliminary survey of the
line for extending the c. & E. to
Newport b. been completed, ard
the engineers are working en- the
estim de. TIE distance has been
a.cei tainad to be folr and a half
miles. The road will run around
the bay, following the shoe close
to the high tide line. As an engin-
e-ripg pfoposit on the route is said
to be easy with no helvy grade and
four per cent. as the sharpest curve.
The sunual reception 10 new
students By the Y. M and Y. W.
c. A. at the college took place in
the armory Friday night. There
was an immense crowd and all had a
good time. The programme in
cluded a cornet duet, and encore,
Harry Beard and Haallie Wilkins;
reading, Laura Pratt; vocal duet,
Miss McBee and Miss Glen; dia-
logue, Arthur Boquet and Miss
P hilips; address, Prof. Horner dfute
solo and encore, Prof. J. B Horner.
Thomas Jeffrey, former Cor
Wallis lawyer, is to epend this win
or in the Willamette Valley and
Oregon. He has been for several
7ears past, praeticing law at Nome
city, Alaska. He is to come south
u the last steamer of the year and
emain until spring. Mrs. Jeffrey
Who arrived in town last week has
,laced her daughter Blanche in col
ege. and her SOD Russelis expected
rom Nome soon, also to enter COL
ege. The family has been in Alaska
or the last five years. Mr.. Jeffrey
3 attorney for a number OF large
o'ning corporations besides having
large private practice, and is do
ng we'll.
Marx McAllister, '05. was yes
erday elected graduate manager of
thletics at the college. He is a
,ery capable as wel1 as a popular
voung man and will make an ex-
;ellent manager. He will at once
axe up the schedule which is al.
eady in large part completed. The
iet of games includes the UNIVERSE
y OF Washington, the University
If Oregon. Willamette Univers.
ty and Whitman College. The
football squad numbers 40 men, |
among whom there are m any husky
lads. They have football practice
every evening. Coach Norcross is
10 arrive tonight.