Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-08-28
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

w. G. Emery leaves the last OF
this week for Portland and Van
couver.
Grover Cate of Hillsboro arrived
Saturday for visit with Corvallis
friends.
DIR. and Mrs J. A. Harper arrived
Friday from their pleasant soJourn
at the seashore.
Miss Bessie Ireland returned
Friday from a few days visit with
friends in Monmouth.
Mrs. Elizabeth Belknap came
home the last of the week from her
visit in Alsea valley.
Miss Pettigrove, of Seattle, is the
guest of her sister, Mrs. Clayton
Heron at Irish Bend.
Asa Alexander and family re-
turned Sunday from their cutting at
the bay. They have been absent
three weeks.
Miss Ann Mann of Independence,
a teacher in the public schools OF
Portland, has been heguest of Mrs.
Clarence Ireland for the asst few
days.
Miss Mae Gerhard did not return
from her vacation at Newport last
week, as she expected, but prolonged
her stay until Sunday. She reports
fine time.
E. E. Wilson left Saturday for
Eugene, near which place he is hold
ing down homestead. Mr.. Wilson
is a former Benton county boy, his
old home being at Mills.
N. A. Fisher, representing Nor
ris' music store, of Eugene, Friday,
purchased the White music store In
this city and has taken possession.
He takes the stock, and adds to it
from the Eugene house.
Half dozen large, luscious ripe
Strawberries were displayed at the
Ireland grocery store, Friday and
Saturday. They were of the Ma
COON variety, and came from the
garden Of Press Walton, below town.
And it is almost the first of Septem-
ber in Oregon.
A picnic party enjryed the
beauties of the scenery at the mill
dam, Fridav. and disposed of a very
tempting dinner. \The uip was
made in the ~ tel bu~, ar,d those in
the party weI.: Mrs Virgil
Waters. Mrs. Ma.l"~, and two
guests; Misses Olive Mali"w. lillian
Earnest, Winors Woodward, Eth |
Waters, Jessie Kemp, Alice Waters
Baby Ruth Waters aud Guy Kemp.
A delightful day was spent, as a
prettier spot would be hard to find
than this picnic ground.
One Of the best yields of grain
reported in Benton SO far is that Of
the Jackson boys north of town.
Their wheat made 80 and 35 bushels
to the acre. Dick Ballard's field,
near by, yielded 25 to 40 bushels.
A peculiar fact in regard to crops
along the river is, that the crops on
the east ara decidedly better than
those on the west side of the stream,
though why there should be any
particular difference is not apparent
to the casual observer.
To climb six miles of telephone
poles to locate difficulty that some
times exists and sometimes does
not, is no small job, but that is
what the employees on the lndepend-
ent line to Kings Valley have dune
the past few days. 1t seems that
at times the line refused to sound
at the Corvallis end, while every
thing appeared right in Kings Val
ley. Every pole, for a distance of
six miles, was climbed, and all
sorts of tests made, but at last ac-
counts the trouble had not been
located.
D. w. Proebste', an OAC grad
uate of 'O5, now in Schnectady,
New York, has been promoted TO
assistant superintendent in the
government testing department.
The students 0f this schooi On enter
ing, sign contract that should
they, while students, ms Ike any new
discoveries about operating the
machinery, or invent anv new ma
chine, the discovery or invention
shall belong to the company. 1t
was because oi Mr.. Proepstels i'm
provemert to certain testing ma
chimes that gave him tbs recent
promotion, which carries with it Il
substantial increase in salary.
An escaped lunatic from the
asylum at Salem created some ex-
element in business circles in Cor