Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-09-11
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs. George Cooper has returned
from a week spent with friends al
Dallas and Monmouth.
Monroe Cameron returned to
Portland, Sunday, after few days
visit with Corvallis relatives.
Mrs. Walter Wiles and daughter,
Miss Frances, left yesterday for q
visit with relatives at Plainview, in
Linn county.
George and Collie Cathey are to
return this week from the Bohemia
mines, where they have oeen to look
after claim.
Prof. and Mrs. Gerard Taillandier
left Saturday for Portland, and on
the return they will pay a visit to
the fair.
DIR. and Mrs. Flo Starr were at
Cascadia last week. The former
was called to the bedside of a reia-
tive who was seriously i'll.
Roy Hollenberg arrived Sunday
from several days. business trip
to Portland in the interests of the
firm of Hollenberg g. Cady, the big
furniture store proprietors.
In Seattle the time has been set
for the trial of Esther Mitchell.
The date is September Oath. Mrs.
Maud Crefield will probably be
tried in October, the exact date not
being SET.
Samuel Whiteside, Sr., George
Whiteside, Millard Long and Mr..
and Mrs. George Cooper, of Corval-
lis. were amcng the guests at the
Whiteside-Guthrie wedding at
Dallas, Sunday.
/ Prof. Gum, the portrait artist
who has been working in Kline's
show window for some weeks, NOV
ed yesterday into studio rooms over
Mornings grocery store, where he
will finish up the order work that
he has on hand.
Andrew Palmer died at Ajax, Or,
last Tuesday evening. He was the
father of Mrs. Cal. Thrasher, who
was at the bedside at the last hour.
Mr.. Palmer was we'll known in this
vicinity, having been a partner, in
the early days, of Robert Buch snan,
and a resident of Benton county for
many years.
At a meeting Thursday night,
Virgil E. Waters was reelected
superintendent of tho Methodist
Episcopal Sunday school. MI.
Walters has served in this capacity
faithfully and we'll for the past
wear, and under his leadership the
attendance has greatly increased
and the interest deepened in the
school.
Harry and DON Holgate arrived
In Corvallis, Saturday, for a few
days. visit with relatives. Harry
came from Boise, Idaho, where he
had been attending the Irrigation
Congress, and Don from Seattle,
where he has been employed. Both
leave this week for klamath Falls,
where they will remain, as Harry
operates a general business and law.
office at that place.
C. S. Butler left Saturday for
Portland, after a few davs' visit in
Corvallis on business. He is en-
gagged in tean,ing and took back
draft team that he bought Of E. w.
Strong, this being the fourth pair
of horses he has shipped to Port
land since he went there to reside.
Mr. Butler states that ne is doing
we'll in the metropolis, and that
the property which he purchased in
that city has advanced in value
$500 since he purchased it.
Rufus Skipton, the well-known
Benton rancher and horse buyer,
is to become resident of Corvallis.
With his family he will begin NOV
ing Thursday into the residence the
first door south of DR.. Cathey's
dwelling, the property belonging to
DIR, Cathey and formerly known as
the Fierstein place. Mrs. Thomp-
son, who has occupied the dwelling,
is to occupy the new house just
built by DR.. Cathey on the south
west corner of the same block.
The team belonging to the Cor
Wallis Ice Il Butter Company stood
at the front door of the factory Sat-
urday forenoon when a threshing
engine came up the street. A few
short minutes later the same team
was caught by Frank francisco,
n-ar the Christian church, no dam
age whatever having esulted. The
animals made the length of Main
street to the bank corner, where